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It came as something of a surprise when Diana, Princess of Wales, made a trip to Angola in 1997, to support the Red Cross's campaign for a total ban on all anti-personnel landmines. Within hours of arriving in Angola, television screens around the world were filled with images of her comforting victims injured in explosions caused by landmines. "I knew the statistics,"she said. "But putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me; like when I met Sandra, a 13- year-old girl who had lost her leg, and people like her. "
The Princess concluded with a simple message. "We must stop landmines." And she used every opportunity during her visit to repeat this message.
But, back in London, her views were not shared by some members of the British government, which refused to support a ban on these weapons. Angry politicians launched an attack on the Princess in the press. They described her as very "ill-informed"and " a loose cannon ."
The Princess responded by brushing aside the criticisms," This is a distraction we do not need. All I'm trying to do is help."
Opposition parties, the media and the public immediately voiced their support for the Princess. To make matters worse for the government, it soon emerged that the Princess's trip had been approved by the Foreign Office, and that she was in fact very well-informed about both the situation in Angola and the British government's policy regarding landmines. The result was a severe embarrassment for the government.
To try and limit the damage, the Foreign Secretary, Malcolm Rifkidnd, claimed that the Princess's views on landmines were not very different from government policy, and that it was working towards a worldwide ban. The Defence Secretary, Michael Portillo, claimed the matter was a misinterpretation or misunderstanding.
For the Princess, the trip to this war-torn country was an excellent opportunity to use her popularity to show the world how much destruction and suffering landmines can cause. She said that the experience had also given her the chance to get closer to people and their problems.
Answer the following questions:
1: What device was causing injury to people?
2: who was trying to shed light on this issue?
3: What other organization was a part of this effort?
4: what country did she go to?
5: in what year?
6: was this trip a secret and kept out of the press?
7: what was filling the tv screens?
8: what was her concise message?
9: did it seem like her home political body support her trip?
10: of what were they unsupportive?
11: what weapon did they compare her too?
12: did she allow this to concern her?
13: did her government know about this trip before she took it?
14: did anyone give their approval for her to take the trip?
15: who?
16: did this cause a few red faces?
17: who tried to mitigate the damages?
18: what is his title?
19: did they seem to have a more compatible opinion with her now?
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J-pop (often stylized as J-POP; "jeipoppu"; an abbreviation for Japanese pop), natively also known simply as pops, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional Japanese music, but significantly in 1960s pop and rock music, such as The Beatles and The Beach Boys, which led to Japanese rock bands such as Happy End fusing rock with Japanese music in the early 1970s. J-pop was further defined by new wave groups in the late 1970s, particularly electronic synth-pop band Yellow Magic Orchestra and pop rock band Southern All Stars.
Eventually, J-pop replaced "kayōkyoku" ("Lyric Singing Music", a term for Japanese pop music from the 1920s to the 1980s) in the Japanese music scene. The term was coined by the Japanese media to distinguish Japanese music from foreign music, and now refers to most Japanese popular music.
The origin of modern J-pop is said to be Japanese-language rock music inspired by the likes of The Beatles. Unlike the Japanese music genre called "kayōkyoku", J-pop uses a special kind of pronunciation, which is similar to that of English. One notable singer to do so is Keisuke Kuwata, who pronounced the Japanese word "karada" ("body") as "kyerada". Additionally, unlike Western music, the major second ("sol" and "la") was usually not used in Japanese music, except art music, before rock music became popular in Japan. When the Group Sounds genre, which was inspired by Western rock, became popular, Japanese pop music adopted the major second, which was used in the final sounds of The Beatles' song "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and The Rolling Stones' song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". Although Japanese pop music changed from music based on Japanese pentatonic scale and distortional tetrachord to the more occidental music over time, music that drew from the traditional Japanese singing style remained popular (such as that of Ringo Shiina).
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the topic today?
2: What is it abbreviating?
3: What did it replacing?
4: What 's another name for that type of music?
5: What is the subject's place of origin?
6: Yes, but what type of music?
7: What band was an inspiration?
8: Who mispronounced "body" in her native tongue?
9: What is unlike Western music?
10: Name one song which adopted the major second?
11: By what group?
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True Manliness
"Please, mother, do sit down and let me try my hand,"said Fred Liscom, a bright active boy, twelve years old. Mrs. Liscom, looking pale and worn, was moving languidly about, trying to clear away the breakfast she had scarcely tasted.
She smiled and said, "You, Fred, you wash dishes?"
"Yes, indeed, mother," answered Fred. "I should be a poor scholar if I couldn't, when I've seen you do it so many times. Just try me."
A look of relief came over his mother's face as she seated herself in her low rocking chair. Fred washed the dishes and put them in the closet. He swept the kitchen, brought up the potatoes from the cellar for the dinner and washed them, and then set out for school.
Fred's father was away from home and as there was some cold meat in the pantry , Mrs. Liscom found it an easy task to prepare dinner. Fred hurried home from school, set the table, and again washed the dishes.
He kept on in this way for two or three days, until his mother was able to resume her usual work. He felt amply rewarded when the doctor, who happened in one day, said, "Well, madam, it's my opinion that you would have been very sick if you had not kept quiet."
The doctor did not know how the "quiet" had been secured, nor how the boy's heart bounded at his words. Fred had given up a great deal of what boys hold dear, for the purpose of helping his mother, coasting and skating being just at this time in perfection.
Besides this, his temper and his patience had been severely tried. He had been in the habit of going early to school and staying to play after it was dismissed.
The boys missed him and their curiosity was excited when he would give no other reason for not coming to school earlier, or staying after school, than that he was "Wanted at home."
"I'll tell you," said Tom Barton, "I'll find him out, boys-see if I don't!"
So, one morning on his way to school, he called on Fred. As he went around to the side door, he walked lightly and somewhat nearer the kitchen window than was ly needful. Looking in, he saw Fred standing at the table with a dishcloth in his hand.
Of course he reported this at school, and various were the greetings poor Fred received at recess ."Well, you're a brave one to stay at home washing dishes!""Girl boy!" "Pretty Bessie!""Lost your apron, haven't you, Polly!"
Fred was not wanting either in spirit or in courage, and he was strongly tempted to resent these insults and to fight some of his tormentors . But his consciousness of right and his love for his mother helped him.
While he was struggling for self-mastery, his teacher appeared at the door of the schoolhouse. Fred caught his eye, and it seemed to look, if it did not say, "Don't give up! Be really brave!" He knew the teacher had heard the insulting taunts of his thoughtless schoolmates.
The boys received notice during the day that Fred must not be taunted in any manner. They knew that the teacher meant what he said; and so the brave little boy had no further trouble.
Answer the following questions:
1: How old was the boy
2: What was his name
3: What did they just finish eating
4: What did Fred want to do
5: At what
6: Was his mother relieved when he done them
7: How long did he keep it up
8: Was his mother able to do the work again
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Ted Turner, achieved high goals and great success by the time he was 43. Best known for his CNN, Ted Turner launched a second nationwide all-news network, Headline News, purchased the Atlanta Braves baseball team, and became the world's best yachtsman at the America's Cup in 1977. In 1982 Ted Turner was named by Forbes one of the 400 richest people in the US. He was named Time magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1992. How did Ted Turner accomplish all of this at such a young age?
Ted Turner's father, Ed, was a self-made millionaire who demanded that his only son try to achieve similar success. He instilled in the boy a strong belief that hard work was good. Besides reading a new book every two days, Ted Turner was also charged rent at home during summer vacations from boarding school. Ed Turner was a strong influence in his son's life.
As a child, Ted Turner lived a very lonely life, often separated from his family. During World War II, his father served in the Navy. Ed Turner took his wife and daughter with him so they could live nearby but left his 6yearold son behind in a boarding school in Cincinnati, Ohio. When Ted Turner was in the fifth grade, his father enrolled him in a military academy. Even though Turner had friends at school, it didn't make up for the absence of his parents and sister. Eventually Ted Turner enrolled at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He attended college off and on, became involved in sailboat racing, and became a member of the U.S. Coast Guard for a while. In his early twenties, he became general manager of one of his father's branch offices -- the Turner Advertising Company in Macon, Georgia.
Two years later after his father's suicide, Ted Turner took over the company. He soon discovered that he was more skilled than his father in managing the business. During the next twenty years, Ted Turner worked hard to accumulate enough power and money to fulfill his father's dream.
Reflecting on his father's death, however, Ted Turner realized that it was dangerous to put too much emphasis on material possessions. He decided to use his hard-earned influence to serve the public. Concerned about the environment, Ted Turner established the Better World Society in 1985. The purpose of this organization was to produce documentaries to educate people about pollution, hunger, and the danger of building weapons of mass destruction. In 1986 Turner began sponsoring the Goodwill Games to promote world peace. The Turner Tomorrow Awards were created to encourage writers and thinkers to focus their attention on solving world problems. The Turner Family Foundation was established in 1992.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who achieved high goals?
2: What is he best known for?
3: Was he one of the richest?
4: By who?
5: His dad was apart of what service?
6: Did his dad pass?
7: When did Ted take over his dad's company?
8: What did he spend the next 20 years doing?
9: What establishment was Ted apart of?
10: Did he receive any reorganization for his foundations?
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A cappella [a kapˈpɛlla] (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It contrasts with cantata, which is accompanied singing. The term "a cappella" was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato style. In the 19th century a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music. The term is also used, albeit rarely, as a synonym for alla breve.
A cappella music was originally used in religious music, especially church music as well as anasheed and zemirot. Gregorian chant is an example of a cappella singing, as is the majority of secular vocal music from the Renaissance. The madrigal, up until its development in the early Baroque into an instrumentally-accompanied form, is also usually in a cappella form. Jewish and Christian music were originally a cappella,[citation needed] and this practice has continued in both of these religions as well as in Islam.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is Gregorian chant an example of?
2: What does that mean?
3: What does it mean in Italian?
4: Is the madrigal a cappella?
5: When did someone add instruments?
6: Was most music from the Renaissance a cappella?
7: Do religions use it?
8: How many?
9: Which ones?
10: Is there another one?
11: Is it used as a synonym?
12: What is a synonym for alla breve?
13: How often is it used that way?
14: What is accompanied singing called?
15: Did a cappella always mean unaccompanied singing?
16: Did it have something to do with Polyphony?
17: what kind?
18: Is this different from Baroque concertato
19: When did a cappella get it's current meaning?
20: Was this due to some kind of ignorance?
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(CNN) -- My Fellow South Africans,
Our beloved Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the founding President of our democratic nation has departed.
He passed on peacefully in the company of his family around 20h50 on the 5th of December 2013.
He is now resting. He is now at peace.
Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father.
Although we knew that this day would come, nothing can diminish our sense of a profound and enduring loss.
His tireless struggle for freedom earned him the respect of the world.
His humility, his compassion, and his humanity earned him their love. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Mandela family. To them we owe a debt of gratitude.
They have sacrificed much and endured much so that our people could be free.
Our thoughts are with his wife Mrs. Graca Machel, his former wife Ms. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, with his children, his grand-children, his great grand-children and the entire family.
Our thoughts are with his friends, comrades and colleagues who fought alongside Madiba over the course of a lifetime of struggle.
Our thoughts are with the South African people who today mourn the loss of the one person who, more than any other, came to embody their sense of a common nationhood.
Our thoughts are with the millions of people across the world who embraced Madiba as their own, and who saw his cause as their cause.
This is the moment of our deepest sorrow.
Our nation has lost its greatest son.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is being honored?
2: What happened to cause this?
3: Violently?
4: When did it happen?
5: What time?
6: Were there others with him?
7: What part of the world is this in?
8: Did he affect the whole planet?
9: How many folks on the planet feel bad about this?
10: Was he single?
11: Who was he married to?
12: Was she his first?
13: Who else then?
14: Were his kids barren?
15: Was he a socialist?
16: What month did he pass?
17: Do they believe he is a restless spirit?
18: What is he equated to in relation to the country's folks?
19: What can ease their ongoing pain?
20: Was he cocky, uncaring and inhumane?
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(CNN) -- The mother of an 11-year-old boy who hanged himself after allegedly being bullied at a Georgia school says her daughter also has been a victim of taunting.
Masika Bermudez-Carrasquillo, who Friday asked the White House for help in a campaign to end school bullying, said her daughter, 12, was also recently harassed by a boy who kept referring to her dead brother.
The boy was disciplined but still taunted the girl before he was suspended and his mother withdrew him from a middle school, she said.
Since then, the boy's mom has failed to meet with her, Bermudez said. "I guess she doesn't care."
The mother, who wrote a letter to President Barack Obama about bullying, held a news conference Friday to ask for help.
Jaheem Herrera was found dead in his closet in April.
"Til this day, I live with that memory of seeing my son hanging in the closet; my daughters are so hurt too," Bermudez wrote in the letter.
Bermudez told CNN that Jaheem, a fifth-grader, had been complaining about bullying at Dunaire Elementary School in DeKalb County. Bermudez said that at the time, she did not know that the bullying had gotten so bad. Friday, she indicated Jaheem once passed out after boys put him in a sleeper hold at the school.
Administrators and others won't take responsibility for this and other incidents at the school, she said.
"I feel like I failed him," Bermudez said of Jaheem. "I can't get justice. A year has passed, and they keep denying it."
Answer the following questions:
1: When was Jaheem found dead?
2: How old was he?
3: What grade?
4: Where did he go to school?
5: What sort of bullying did he suffer?
6: How long ago did this happen?
7: Is the mother attempting to get the government involved?
8: Did school faculty admit fault?
9: What is the mother's name?
10: Does she have other offspring?
11: What's her name?
12: What happened to her?
13: By whom?
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The University of Pittsburgh (commonly referred to as Pitt) is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1787 after the American Revolutionary War, it was founded on the edge of the American frontier as the Pittsburgh Academy. It developed and was renamed as Western University of Pennsylvania by a change to its charter in 1819. After surviving two devastating fires and various relocations within the area, the school moved to its current location in the Oakland neighborhood of the city; it was renamed as the University of Pittsburgh in 1908. For most of its history, Pitt was a private institution, until 1966 when it became part of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education.
The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges located at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the university's central administration and 28,766 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. The university also includes four undergraduate schools located at campuses within Western Pennsylvania: Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown, and Titusville. The 132-acre Pittsburgh campus has multiple contributing historic buildings of the Schenley Farms Historic District, most notably its 42-story Gothic revival centerpiece, the Cathedral of Learning. The campus is situated adjacent to the flagship medical facilities of its closely affiliated University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), as well as the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Schenley Park, and Carnegie Mellon University.
Answer the following questions:
1: What institution was created in 1787?
2: What was its original name?
3: it was then changed to what?
4: what year did that happen?
5: was its location always the same?
6: what catastrophe happened to it more than once?
7: what is its nickname?
8: where did it finally move to?
9: is it still there?
10: what year did it take its current name?
11: has it always been a public uni?
12: what year did that change?
13: when it became a part of what system?
14: how big is the campus?
15: what is the location of those schools?
16: how many people are enrolled there?
17: what is its most notable central building?
18: how tall is that?
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CHAPTER VII.
Something between a hindrance and a help. WORDSWORTH.
Etheldred awoke long before time for getting up, and lay pondering over her visions. Margaret had sympathised, and therefore they did not seem entirely aerial. To earn money by writing was her favourite plan, and she called her various romances in turn before her memory, to judge which might be brought down to sober pen and ink. She considered till it became not too unreasonably early to get up. It was dark, but there was a little light close to the window: she had no writing-paper, but she would interline her old exercise-book. Down she ran, and crouching in the school-room window-seat, she wrote on in a trance of eager composition, till Norman called her, as he went to school, to help him to find a book.
This done, she went up to visit Margaret, to tell her the story, and consult her. But this was not so easy. She found Margaret with little Daisy lying by her, and Tom sitting by the fire over his Latin.
"Oh, Ethel, good-morning, dear! you are come just in time."
"To take baby?" said Ethel, as the child was fretting a little.
"Yes, thank you, she has been very good, but she was tired of lying here, and I can't move her about," said Margaret.
"Oh, Margaret, I have such a plan," said Ethel, as she walked about with little Gertrude; but Tom interrupted.
"Margaret, will you see if I can say my lesson?" and the thumbed Latin grammar came across her just as Dr. May's door opened, and he came in exclaiming, "Latin grammar! Margaret, this is really too much for you. Good-morning, my dears. Ha! Tommy, take your book away, my boy. You must not inflict that on sister now. There's your regular master, Richard, in my room, if it is fit for his ears yet. What, the little one here too?"
Answer the following questions:
1: Which section is this?
2: Who woke up early?
3: What did she do when she woke up?
4: Who was sympathetic?
5: What was her preferred plan?
6: What subject did she think about?
7: Until what time did she ponder this?
8: Where did she run to?
9: Who interrupted her writing?
10: What did he want?
11: What did she do after?
12: What would she do with her?
13: Who was with Margaret?
14: Was Margaret happy to see Ethel?
15: What did she want Ethel to do?
16: What is the baby's name?
17: What news did Ethel give Margaret?
18: Who broke up their conversation?
19: What did he want?
20: Who arrived and stopped the lesson?
21: What did he say to Tom?
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"Find a job you love, and you'll never work a day in your life." Do you agree with this old saying? Joanne Gordon does. She is the author of Be Happy at work and other books about careers . Gordon believes that about 30% of employees in North America do not like their jobs, and she thinks that is terrible. She wants to help people who do not feel satisfied with their jobs find work that is good for them. Joanne says, "There are no happy jobs, only happy workers." She believes that happy workers share three main characteristics.
First, happy workers enjoy the daily activities of their jobs, and they look forward to the workday. Take Tony Hawk, for example. At age 14, he became a professional skateboarder. Now he is a businessman working on projects related to skateboarding--films and video games, but he still skates every day. He once said, "My youngest son's pre-school was recently asked what their dads do for work. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.'" Tony agrees that his job doesn't look like work. He has found a way to spend each day doing a job he enjoys.
Second, happy workers like the people they work with. Sally Ayote says, "I work with the coolest people in the world." She and her group cook for almost 1,200 people in Antarctica. Most of these people are scientists who are doing research. Sally loves to sit and talk with them. She says, "There is no television here, no radio, so I get to know the scientists and what they're studying." Sally thinks she has a great job, and the best part about it is the people.
Third, happy workers know that their work helps others. Caroline Baron's work helps people who have had to leave their home countries because of war or other dangers. She is a filmmaker who started an organization called FilmAid, which shows movies in refugee camps around the world. Caroline believes that movies can be very helpful in these camps. For one thing, entertaining movies let refugees forget their troubles for a little while. Movies can also teach important subjects like health and safety. For example, in one camp, thousands of refugees saw a movie about how to get clean water. Caroline knows that is helping other people, and this makes her feel proud and happy about her work.
Tony Hawk, Sally Ayote, and Caroline Baron all get great satisfaction from their work. Tony Hawk says, "Find the thing you love. If you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous." Joanne Gordon would agree. She encourages people to find something they enjoy doing, find people they like to work with, and find ways to help others. Then they can be proud of what they do, and they will probably be happy at work.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is an author?
2: What did she write?
3: Is that her only book?
4: What does she believe?
5: How does she feel about that?
6: How many characteristics do happy workers share?
7: What is the first one?
8: The second?
9: The third?
10: What was Tony Hawk when he was young?
11: At what age did he become this?
12: What is he now?
13: Does he have a child?
14: Is it a son or daughter?
15: What did Sally Ayote say?
16: What does she do?
17: For who?
18: How many?
19: Who are those people?
20: What does Caroline Baron do?
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A protagonist () is the main character in any story, such as a literary work or drama.
The protagonist is at the center of the story, makes the key decisions, and experiences the consequences of those decisions. The protagonist affects the main characters' circumstances as well, as they are often the primary actor propelling the story forward. If a story contains a subplot, or is a narrative made up of several stories, then the character who is interpreted as the protagonist of each subplot or individual story.
The word "protagonist" is used notably in stories and forms of literature and culture that contain stories, which would include dramas, novels, operas and films. In those forms the protagonist may simply be the leading actor, or the principal character in the story. More formally, the protagonist, while still defined as a leading character, may also be defined as the character whose fate is most closely followed by the reader or audience, and who is opposed by the antagonist. The antagonist will provide obstacles and complications and create conflict that test the protagonist, thus revealing the strengths and weaknesses of their character.
The earliest known examples of protagonist are dated back to Ancient Greece. At first dramatic performances involved merely dancing and recitation by the chorus. But then in "Poetics", Aristotle describes how a poet named Thespis introduced the idea of having one actor step out and engage in a dialogue with the chorus. This invention of tragedy occurred about 536 B.C. Then the poet Aeschylus, in his plays, introduced a second actor, inventing the idea of dialogue between two characters. Sophocles then wrote plays that required a third actor.
Answer the following questions:
1: what is a protagonist
2: who does it affect
3: how far back do protagonists go
4: who came up with the idea of having a main character out of the chorus
5: who reveals strength and weaknesses of protagonist
6: what does he provide
7: what year did this occur in Greece
8: who introduced the second actor
9: who introduced the third
10: what kind of "stories" include a protagonist
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zbMATH, formerly Zentralblatt MATH, is a major international reviewing service providing reviews and abstracts for articles in pure and applied mathematics, produced by the Berlin office of FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure GmbH. Editors are the European Mathematical Society (EMS), FIZ Karlsruhe, and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. zbMATH is distributed by Springer Science+Business Media. It uses the Mathematics Subject Classification codes for organising the reviews by topic.
Mathematicians Richard Courant, Otto Neugebauer and Harald Bohr, together with the publisher Ferdinand Springer, took the initiative for the foundation of a new mathematical reviewing journal. Harald Bohr, the brother of the famous physicist Niels Bohr, worked in Copenhagen. Courant and Neugebauer were professors at the University of Göttingen. At that time, Göttingen was considered one of the central places for mathematical research, having appointed mathematicians like David Hilbert, Hermann Minkowski, Carl Runge and Felix Klein, the great organiser of mathematics and physics in Göttingen. His dream of a building for an independent mathematical institute with a spacious and rich reference library was realised four years after his death. The credit for this achievement is particularly due to Richard Courant, who convinced the Rockefeller Foundation to donate a large amount of money for the construction.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who does the editing?
2: and the publishing?
3: Who are some of the mathematicians involved?
4: Was anyone famous related to the project?
5: Whom?
6: Where did he work?
7: What is the name of the group?
8: That was formerly known as?
9: What was the name of one of the most active centers for mathematics study?
10: Who donated an appreciable amount to the project?
11: Was a deam brought to life?
12: Who received most of the credit for the realization?
13: How are the reviewed materials organized?
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John was in the third grade, and nine years old. Every day he had to walk home from school. There were some kids in his class who were mean to him, and during the winter they would throw snowballs at him. John could have told the teacher, but one of the kids was a very pretty girl. She was mean, but John liked her because she was pretty and did not want her to get in trouble.
One day, his teacher asked John to stay after class to wipe off the chalkboard and to empty the pencil sharpener. By the time he was done, the other kids had gone home. They could no longer throw snowballs at him. John did not mind helping out his teacher, and he soon stayed after class every day.
John was not very good at math, and sometimes his teacher would help him when he stayed after school. She said if John could help her out for at least two weeks, he could pass his math class. John thought it was a good deal, and ended up being much better at math.
Answer the following questions:
1: What did kids do to John?
2: Did he tell the teacher?
3: Did he like one of his bullies?
4: Why?
5: Did he take the bus?
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With an estimated population of 1,381,069 as of July 1, 2014, San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest in California. It is part of the San Diego–Tijuana conurbation, the second-largest transborder agglomeration between the US and a bordering country after Detroit–Windsor, with a population of 4,922,723 people. San Diego is the birthplace of California and is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches, long association with the United States Navy and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center.
Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the entire area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcalá, founded in 1769, formed the first European settlement in what is now California. In 1821, San Diego became part of the newly-independent Mexico, which reformed as the First Mexican Republic two years later. In 1850, it became part of the United States following the Mexican–American War and the admission of California to the union.
Answer the following questions:
1: When did San Diego become part of the United States?
2: What group of people is it historically a home to?
3: Is it the largest city in the United States?
4: What is the population?
5: Who claimed the by for Spain?
6: What year was that?
7: What happened in 1821?
8: What is the weather there?
9: Are there beaches?
10: What military branch is based there?
11: Is became part of the US after what war?
12: Is it the largest city in California?
13: It is called the "what" of California?
14: What else it is known for?
15: What is it part of?
16: What is that?
17: Who is first largest?
18: When Juan Cabrillo claimed it, what basis did it form?
19: How many years later?
20: What did independent Mexico reform into?
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The World Health Organization warns that millions of people are dying every year from indoor air pollution. The WHO finds that poor cooking, heating and lighting technologies are killing millions of people each year.
Indoor air pollution results from the use of dangerous fuels and cook-stoves in the home. To help fight the problem, the WHO announced, new guidelines aimed at reducing household pollutants.
WHO officials say nearly three billion people are unable to use clean fuels and technologies for cooking? heating and lighting. And they say more than seven million people die from exposure to indoor or outdoor air pollution each year. Of that number, the WHO says about 4. 3 million people die from household air pollution given off by simple coal cook-stoves. Most of the deaths are in developing countries.
Carlos Dora is Coordinator in the WHO's Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health. He says people should not use unprocessed coal and kerosene fuel indoors. He says opening a window or door to let out the harmful air will not improve the situation. It will only pollute the outdoors.
WHO officials say indoor pollution leads to early deaths from stroke, heart and lung disease, childhood pneumonia and lung cancer. Women and girls are the main victims. The United Nations found that more than 95 percent of households in sub-Saharan Africa depend on solid fuels for cooking. It says huge populations in India, China and Latin American countries, such as Guatemala and Peru, are also at risk.
Nigel Bruce is a professor of Public Health at the University of Liverpool. He says researchers are developing good cook-stoves and other equipment to burn fuels in a more efficient way.
WHO experts note some new, safe and low-cost technologies that could help are already available. In India, you can buy an induction stove for about $ 8.00. And in Africa a you can buy a solar lamp for less than $ 1. 00.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many die annually from indoor air pollution?
2: Cooking, heating and what else kill them?
3: The WHO announced what?
4: WHO says how many people are unable to use clean fuels?
5: Are most deaths in United States?
6: Where are they at?
7: Who is Carlos Dora?
8: He said people should avoid using what?
9: What will not improve the situation?
10: What will it do, instead?
11: What conditions does indoor pollution lead to?
12: Are more men or women effected?
13: What area depend heavily on solid fuels for cooking?
14: What other areas with large populations are at risk?
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Chapter LI
Dick Shand Goes To Cambridgeshire
The news of Shand's return was soon common in Cambridge. The tidings, of course, were told to Mr. Caldigate, and were then made known by him to Hester. The old man, though he turned the matter much in his mind,--doubting whether the hopes thus raised would not add to Hester's sorrow should they not ultimately be realised,--decided that he could not keep her in the dark. Her belief could not be changed by any statement which Shand might make. Her faith was so strong that no evidence could shake it,--or confirm it. But there would, no doubt, arise in her mind a hope of liberation if any new evidence against the Australian marriage were to reach her; which hope might so probably be delusive! But he knew her to be strong to endure as well as strong to hope, and therefore he told her at once. Then Mr. Seely returned to Cambridge, and all the facts of Shand's deposition were made known at Folking. 'That will get him out at once, of course,' said Hester, triumphantly, as soon as she heard it. But the Squire was older and more cautious, and still doubted. He explained that Dick Shand was not a man who by his simple word would certainly convince a Secretary of State;--that deceit might be suspected;--that a fraudulent plot would be possible; and that very much care was necessary before a convicted prisoner would be released.
'I am quite sure, from Mr. Seely's manner, that he thinks I have bribed the young man,' said Caldigate.
Answer the following questions:
1: What are the people of Cambridge talking about?
2: Who was the first to know?
3: Who did he tell?
4: Was that an easy decision?
5: Had Hester been sad?
6: What might she feel if he told her?
7: How would hope make her more sad?
8: How did he not want to leave her?
9: Does she lack faith?
10: Who came back to Cambridge with some information?
11: Where has Shand been?
12: What did Mr. Seely have information on?
13: Does Hester see this as good news?
14: Who might be lying?
15: to who?
16: Has Shand been convicted?
17: Do they let people out of prison on a whim?
18: What kind of evidence would make Hester hope?
19: about what?
20: What does Mr. Seely think Coldigate did?
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Jerusalem (CNN) -- A wheelchair-bound Israeli veteran died Wednesday, days after setting himself on fire in a protest over his economic situation, a spokeswoman for Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv said.
Akiva Mafa'i, who was badly injured two decades ago during his service in the Israel Defense Forces, had set himself alight Sunday.
The 45-year-old poured gasoline over his body and ignited it at a bus station in the town of Yehud. Passersby extinguished the flames with bottles of water and a fire extinguisher but he was left with 70% burns.
The veteran had spent four months in a coma at the Beer Sheva Medical Center after he was injured at age 23, according to local media reports. He was to be married a month after he was hurt but the marriage was canceled.
Mafa'i is the second person to die in a self-immolation in Israel in less than a week.
Moshe Silman, a bed-ridden member of a movement to lower the cost of living in Israel, set himself alight during a demonstration in Tel Aviv on July 14. He died two weeks later.
Teenage monk self-immolates in China
According to local media reports, he left a note accusing the conservative Netanyahu government of "taking from the poor and giving to the rich." Israeli media have reported other suicide attempts apparently motivated by economic hardship.
The social protest movement has been gaining ground since large demonstrations were held in cities last summer, led by members of Israel's middle class, over soaring costs of living.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where does this take place?
2: Where is Yehud?
3: On what day did he die?
4: How?
5: Did he pass away on the same day he did this?
6: Who reported the news?
7: From?
8: Located where?
9: What had he done about 20 years before?
10: While serving what branch?
11: Where did he light himself up?
12: How old was he?
13: Was he able to run around while burning?
14: Did someone put him out?
15: Who?
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(CNN) -- He may be a long way from the football field, but Pele at least is back to talking and getting better at a Sao Paulo, Brazil, hospital.
The city's Albert Einstein Hospital issued a statement Saturday saying the football legend -- born Edson Arantes do Nascimento -- was improving but still in intensive care battling an illness.
Pele is lucid, talking and responding to antibiotics, the hospital said. He remains on temporary dialysis, which was a reason he was moved to the ICU in the first place, because the machine he needed was there.
The hospital issued a second statement later Saturday, indicating that Pele continues to recover and that doctors plan to take him off dialysis early Sunday.
Earlier this week, the 74-year-old was admitted to the medical facility -- the same place he recently underwent surgery to remove kidney stones -- for a urinary tract infection.
The athletic icon had one kidney removed during this days as a player, his aide, Jose Fornos Rodrigues, told CNN.
Pele tweeted Thursday that he was looking forward to spending the holidays with family and starting "the new year with renewed health, with many international trips planned."
"I am blessed to receive your love and support," Pele said, "and thank God this is nothing serious."
Known as "The Black Pearl" and simply "The King," Pele is one of the best known names in all of sports.
He burst onto the scene as a teenager, helping lead his native Brazil to the 1958 World Cup championship. Pele went on to star on two other World Cup title teams as well, in 1962 and 1970, in addition to a breakthrough career with the Brazilian club Santos and later with the New York Cosmos of the now-defunct North American Soccer League.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is back to talking and getting better at Sao Paulo Brazil, hospital?
2: What did the Hospital's statement say?
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Linda and David have traveled by air from London to Sydney, Australia. Linda has promised her mother that she will ring her to let her know that they have arrived safely. This is something she had done ever since she was a child. David thinks it is not a good idea to ring so far, to spend too much, and to say so little. "If there were an accident. " He says, 'they'd know soon enough. Bad news travels fast. " But Linda has promised that she would ring. "However," she says, "'it doesn't cost much when you just think that it's the other side of the world. It's only six pence per second . " "If you're on that telephone for less than one minute, I'll eat my hat,' David says, "And one minute's nearly four pounds. " "That's no more than you'd pay for a new hat," ''Linda answers. She has asked the man at the hotel desk to get her the number. The telephone rings. Linda picks it up. "Hello, Mum. Is that you ?" She says. "Six pence per second," David reminds her. "Hello, love. " It is Mrs Lee, Linda's mother, speaking from London. "I can hear you very clearly just like you are in the next room. It's a better line than when you called me from your office. Do you remember? I shouted at that time, and still you couldn't hear me sometimes. " "Yes, Mum. "Linda puts in. . "I just wanted to ring to ....... " "I remember how you rang when you went to Betty's house to eat, when you were a little girl. And then when you ..." Mrs Lee is a great talker "Nearly four pounds. " says David. Linda tries to tell her mother that it is time to say goodbye. "Yes, all right, "says Mrs Lee," But you will write, won't you, as you did when you were at work ..." Once again, Mrs Lee talks about the pass. and there is no stopping her. "Four pounds fifty, 'says David. At last, Linda cuts her mother short, promises to write, and rings off. "There! That wasn't long, was it ?" "Four pounds, ninety pence." David answers. "And you didn't even say that we've arrived."
Answer the following questions:
1: David and whom are traveling?
2: Who says "Four pounds, ninety pence."
3: Whos answers the phone?
4: who will eat a hat?
5: Who says bad news travels fast?
6: Who is at the hotel desk
7: Who shouted
8: What travels fast?
9: Who says hello love
10: Who says hello love
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Meagan and her friend Samantha, both students, lived together in Denver. On mornings when Samantha had class, Meagan would watch her 2-year-old daughter, Hannah. Also part of the household was Meagan's pet, Willie, a parrot -- a particularly intelligent and chatty breed. He picked up quite a healthy vocabulary ("Silly Willie"was a favorite saying) and became a great mimic -- of cats, dogs, chickens and humans. One day with Samantha at school, Hannah sat in front of morning cartoons while Meagan cooked Pop-Tarts in the kitchen. When the toaster spat out the food, Meagan placed it at the center of the kitchen table to cool. She glanced at Hannah and, confident the child was fully engaged in the TV, slipped out quickly to use the bathroom. "I was gone maybe 30 seconds,"Meagan recalls."And suddenly, I heard the bird going crazy and shouting."She heard two very distinct words from the parrot's mouth."Mama! Baby! Mama! Baby!"Meagan ran out of the bathroom to find Hannah in the kitchen, holding the partly eaten Pop-Tarts, out of breath, her face and lips a terrifying shade of blue. And Willie was still crying. "Hannah had climbed up on a chair and gotten the Pop-Tarts and she was clearly choking on them,"says Meagan."I seized her and immediately started doing first aid until the piece came flying out."The bird quieted down and Meagan burst into tears, relief washing over her; Hannah was fine, already smiling her big smile. When Meagan told Samantha what happened,"She was so grateful, thanking me for what I did,"Meagan says."But I said, 'Don't thank me! It was Willie who was the hero!'"
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is Meagan's friend?
2: Are they students?
3: Where do they live?
4: Does Samantha have a kid?
5: Who would watch over her?
6: How old is she?
7: Does Meagan have a pet?
8: What is its name?
9: What is it?
10: What kind of breed?
11: What was his favorite saying?
12: What did Meagan cook?
13: Where?
14: Where did she place it?
15: What was the parrot shouting?
16: Where was Hannah?
17: What did Meagan do to the pop-tart
18: What did Meagan burst into?
19: What did Meagan do to hannah?
20: Was Hannah fine?
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(CNN) -- Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's new gig on Wall Street will line his pockets, to the tune of more than $1 million per year. And for those who played an instrumental role in his defeat in Virginia's primaries, the justification of their concerns about the former congressman is quite fulfilling.
Kevin Broughton, communications director of the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, said, "many analysts accused Eric Cantor of paying more attention to Wall Street than to the people of Virginia's 7th District. He certainly didn't waste any time validating that theory."
Cantor, who was the No. 2 Republican in the House, lost his primary this year to unknown college professor David Brat. Part of the reason was voters thought he was disconnected from his Richmond, Virginia, district by focusing instead on his duties as a fundraiser and national leader for the Republican Party. He left Congress early, resigning his seat last month.
Since 1999, the seven-term congressman had raised more than $3 million from the investment industry. And in his last campaign, the industry was his largest contributor, donating $785,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
For disaffected conservatives, especially among the tea party, which came to life early in the Obama administration and took on a populist message, Cantor's move to a boutique investment bank, Moelis & Co., as a vice chairman and board member is proof that their concerns were spot on.
In a statement, Cantor said, "When I considered options for the next chapter of my career, I knew I wanted to join a firm with a great entrepreneurial spirit that focused on its clients."
Answer the following questions:
1: Is he in the lead?
2: What is his name?
3: is he rich?
4: How much money is he making per year?
5: Where was he defeated?
6: Are thier reasons for thier worry justified?
7: What does the leader do?
8: Who did he lose to?
9: Was he charged with taking perverted photos?
10: When did he resign?
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CHAPTER XIX. THE KNIGHT AND THE DRAGON
A telegram had been received in the morning, which kept Valetta and Fergus on the qui vive all day. Valetta was an unspeakable worry to the patient Miss Vincent, and Fergus arranged his fossils and minerals.
Both children flew out to meet their father at the gate, but words failed them as he came into the house, greeted the aunts, and sat down with Fergus on his knee, and Valetta encircled by his arm.
'Yes, Lilias is quite well, very busy and happy---with her first instalment of children.'
'I am so thankful that you are come,' said Adeline. 'Jane ventured to augur that you would, but I thought it too much to hope for.'
'There was no alternative,' said Sir Jasper.
'I infer that you halted at Avoncester.'
'I did so; I saw the poor boy.'
'What a comfort for his sister!'
'Poor fellow! Mine was the first friendly face he had seen, and he was almost overcome by it'---and the strong face quivered with emotion at the recollection of the boy's gratitude.
'He is a nice fellow,' said Jane. 'I am glad you have seen him, for neither Mr. White nor Rotherwood can believe that he is not utterly foolish, if not worse.'
'A boy may do foolish things without being a fool,' said Sir Jasper. 'Not that this one is such another as his father. I wish he were.'
'I suppose he has more of the student scholarly nature.'
'Yes. The enlistment, which was the making of his father, was a sort of moral suicide in him. I got him to tell me all about it, and I find that the idea of the inquest, and of having to mention you, you monkey, drove him frantic, and the dismissal completed the business.'
Answer the following questions:
1: Where were they all day?
2: What held them there?
3: When did it arrive?
4: Was anyone distracted by something?
5: Whom?
6: How did Miss Vincent feel?
7: Is someone a new parent?
8: Do they have a lot of spare time?
9: Who was met at the gate?
10: How many kids were there?
11: Was someone acting in an ignorant way?
12: Who was it?
13: Did Jane think he was mean?
14: How did she feel about him?
15: Who had seen him?
16: Was someone putting something in order?
17: Who?
18: What was he organizing?
19: Who let him sit on their knee?
20: Was he holding anyone else?
21: Whom?
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CHAPTER XIII
WERNER'S ATTACK
"Hold on, Bill Glutts!" cried Randy, as he ran after the youth whom he had not seen since the Winter before.
"You leave me alone!" returned Glutts, and then, in order to run faster, he dropped the bundle he was carrying.
"Don't let him get away!" burst out Fred, and made a wild dash over some low bushes in Glutts's direction. In a moment more he had caught Glutts by the arm.
"Let go of me!" screamed the former cadet, and in alarm he tried to push Fred away. But the youngest Rover boy clung fast, and then Glutts aimed a blow with his fist at Fred's face.
Had the blow landed as intended, it would have hurt severely; but the youngest Rover ducked, and then hit Glutts a stinging blow on the chin.
By this time Randy and Gif were coming up, and almost before he knew it Bill Glutts was surrounded. Gif caught the former bully of the Hall by the shoulder.
"This is a nice way to act, Glutts," he said sternly. "What business had you to touch our lunch?"
"How did I know it belonged to you?" whined Glutts, much crestfallen over the sudden turn affairs had taken. "We found the stuff on the rocks."
"You can't play the innocent that way," broke in Randy. "You and Gabe Werner must have followed us to this island. Gee!" he added quickly, "where is Werner?"
"Jack went after him," answered Fred; "and so did Andy and Spouter."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who did Gif catch by the shoulder?
2: his name?
3: how many encircled him?
4: who surrounded him?
5: who else?
6: how did Fred avoid a punch?
7: where would it have landed?
8: How long was it since Randy last saw Bill?
9: what did Bill drop?
10: what was in it?
11: What did Gif say he'd touched?
12: The captured boy said they'd found stuff where?
13: was he happy at the way things were working out?
14: WHere did he follow them?
15: who was he with?
16: who went after that guy?
17: how many others?
18: their names?
19: where had Fred hit Glutts?
20: did it hurt?
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Bush's margin of victory in the popular vote was the smallest ever for a reelected incumbent president, but marked the first time since his father's victory 16 years prior that a candidate won a majority of the popular vote. The electoral map closely resembled that of 2000, with only three states changing sides: New Mexico and Iowa voted Republican in 2004 after having voted Democratic in 2000, while New Hampshire voted Democratic in 2004 after previously voting Republican. In the Electoral College, Bush received 286 votes to Kerry's 252.
Just eight months into his presidency, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 suddenly transformed Bush into a wartime president. Bush's approval ratings surged to near 90%. Within a month, the forces of a coalition led by the United States entered Afghanistan, which had been sheltering Osama bin Laden, suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks. By December, the Taliban had been removed as rulers of Kabul, although a long and ongoing reconstruction would follow, severely hampered by ongoing turmoil and violence within the country.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who had the smallest margin of victory ever for an incumbant president?
2: Which states changed sides in the 2004 election?
3: any others?
4: How many more Electoral College votes did Bush receive over Kerry?
5: What was the difference in the number of Electoral College votes between the two candidates?
6: What made him a wartime leader?
7: When did that happen?
8: How long had he been president?
9: What happened to his approval rating at that time?
10: Which group was removed by a US-led military action?
11: Who was thought to be behind the terrorism?
12: What was his last name?
13: Was the rebuilding of Afghanistan peaceful?
14: What happened?
15: How long after the attacks did the US invade Afghanistan?
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Once upon a time there was a cute brown puppy. He was a very happy puppy. His name was Rudy. Rudy had a best friend. His name was Thomas. Thomas had a nice dad named Rick. Thomas and Rudy had been friends for almost a year. Rudy and Thomas loved to play in the big back yard. Sometimes, Thomas would ask his friend Jacob to come to the back yard and play with them. Jacob would always bring his puppy too. Jacob's puppy was named Sally. Thomas and Jacob would run around the back yard and Rudy and Sally chased them and barked. They all had so much fun playing together. One day, Thomas told Rudy that tomorrow would be a very special day. It would be Rudy's birthday. Rudy was very excited. The next day came and Thomas threw a birthday party for Rudy. All of Rudy's friends were there and they had presents for him. Jacob brought Rudy a new ball and Sally brought him a bone. There was one more present for Rudy to open. When he opened the gift from Thomas, Rudy was so exited that he jumped and barked. It was a new red collar with a shiny name tag on it. It was the best gift Rudy had ever been given.
Answer the following questions:
1: where did Thomas and Rudy like to play?
2: how long were they friends for?
3: what kind of animal was Rudy?
4: and his color?
5: what was the name of Jacob's dog?
6: what did she take to Jacob?
7: what was the occasion?
8: for who?
9: was Rudy pumped?
10: what was the gift?
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People think of ice cream as an American food. Yet, ice cream really came from Asia. In the late 1200s Marco Polo, the great explorer, is said to have seen rich Asians eating dishes of ice. Camels had brought the ice from distant mountains. Before it was served, the ice had been flavored with fruits. Marco Polo brought this new dish to Italy, In France cooks changed the ice recipe and made ice cream. At first, cooks tried to keep the recipe a secret. They wanted it to be a special dish for rich people. By the late 1700s, though, ice cream was sold throughout Europe and America. Some great Americans loved ice cream. George Washington was the first to buy a special machine for making it. When Thomas Jefferson returned from France, he brought an ice cream recipe home with him. Dolly Madison, wife of President James Madison, also liked ice cream, and she often served it at the White House. Actually, a famous brand of ice cream was even named after her. In the late 1800s, the ice cream industry began to grow. A way of keeping ice cream frozen had been found, so ice cream makers did not have to worry about ice cream melting anymore.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the story about?
2: Where was it invented?
3: How did it get world wide?
4: What did he do?
5: How did he learn about it?
6: When did this happen?
7: Where did they get the ice?
8: Did they have flavors?
9: Where else did it become popular?
10: When was cream first added?
11: When did it get to America?
12: Did any famous people eat it?
13: Who, for example?
14: How do we know he liked it?
15: Who else?
16: How did Jefferson learn about it?
17: Anyone else?
18: Did they ever serve it to guests?
19: When did it really become popular?
20: How come it became popular?
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CHAPTER XV.
COASTING.
The current was now losing its power, and Godfrey, dipping his hand into the water and then putting it to his lips, found that it was distinctly brackish, and congratulated himself upon having laid in a stock of water when he did. After Luka had slept for six hours, Godfrey roused him.
"Now, Luka, you must take my place and steer; move very carefully else we shall capsize her. That is it. Now, if there is any change you lean forward and touch me; I shall wake in a moment. If the sail should shift over to the other side all you have got to do is to shift this sheet to its fastening on that side. With this light wind jibing does not matter at all, but if the wind freshens wake me at once."
For a quarter of an hour Godfrey watched to see that Luka steered steadily, then he worked himself down in the cockpit and closed his eyes. It did not seem to him that he had been asleep long when Luka touched him.
"I would not have woke you," Luka said; "but the land seems going right away from us."
Godfrey sat up. "So it is, Luka! I should not be surprised if that is the extreme northern point. Of course it may be only a deep bay, but at any rate we must see." He looked at his watch, "Why, I have been asleep nearly seven hours. Now, Luka, you had better haul the boat alongside, and see about cooking. We forgot to try those onions yesterday. Cut one up small and put it in the pan with the meat. By the by, you had better tie a piece of cord to those four bears' hams, and let them tow overboard for two or three hours. The water must be quite salt now, and when you take them out we will rub a little fresh salt into them. They ought to keep well then."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who wanted to take a nap?
2: Who did he wake to take over?
3: How long did he observe to make sure he was steering correctly?
4: Was he able to nap then?
5: For how long?
6: What would happen to the ship if Luka did badly?
7: What should he do if the sails change sides?
8: Even if the winds are gentle?
9: what if they get a lot stronger though?
10: Are the currents getting stronger and stronger?
11: Was the water clear or spoiled?
12: Is there any backup?
13: How long did Luka get to sleep?
14: What is Luka set to do when Godfrey wakes up?
15: Are there any vegetables?
16: What kind?
17: What is he to drag in the waters?
18: How many?
19: For how long?
20: And then do what with them?
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The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol Building, is the home of the United States Congress, and the seat of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. It sits atop Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Though not at the geographic center of the Federal District, the Capitol forms the origin point for the District's street-numbering system and the District's four quadrants.
The original building was completed in 1800 and was subsequently expanded, particularly with the addition of the massive dome, and expanded chambers for the bicameral legislature, the House of Representatives in the south wing and the Senate in the north wing. Like the principal buildings of the executive and judicial branches, the Capitol is built in a distinctive neoclassical style and has a white exterior. Both its east and west elevations are formally referred to as "fronts", though only the east front was intended for the reception of visitors and dignitaries.
Prior to establishing the nation's capital in Washington, D.C., the United States Congress and its predecessors had met in Philadelphia (Independence Hall and Congress Hall), New York City (Federal Hall), and a number of other locations (York, Pennsylvania; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland; and Nassau Hall in Princeton, New Jersey). In September 1774, the First Continental Congress brought together delegates from the colonies in Philadelphia, followed by the Second Continental Congress, which met from May 1775 to March 1781.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is Congress' home?
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Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, is an American company that publishes reference books, especially known for its dictionaries.
In 1831, George and Charles Merriam founded the company as G & C Merriam Co. in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1843, after Noah Webster died, the company bought the rights to "An American Dictionary of the English Language" from Webster's estate. All Merriam-Webster dictionaries trace their lineage to this source.
In 1964, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. acquired Merriam-Webster, Inc. as a subsidiary. The company adopted its current name in 1982.
In 1806, Webster published his first dictionary, . In 1807 Webster started two decades of intensive work to expand his publication into a fully comprehensive dictionary, "An American Dictionary of the English Language". To help him trace the etymology of words, Webster learned 26 languages. Webster hoped to standardize American speech, since Americans in different parts of the country used somewhat different vocabularies and spelled, pronounced, and used words differently.
Webster completed his dictionary during his year abroad in 1825 in Paris, and at the University of Cambridge. His 1820s book contained 70,000 words, of which about 12,000 had never appeared in a dictionary before. As a spelling reformer, Webster believed that English spelling rules were unnecessarily complex, so his dictionary introduced American English spellings, replacing "colour" with "color", "waggon" with "wagon", and "centre" with "center". He also added American words, including "skunk" and "squash", that did not appear in British dictionaries. At the age of 70 in 1828, Webster published his dictionary; it sold poorly, with only 2,500 copies putting him in debt. However, in 1840, he published the second edition in two volumes with much greater success.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who bought Merriam Webster?
2: Who bought them in 1964?
3: What is Merriam Webster most known for?
4: What type of book is that?
5: What was Webster's first name?
6: What did he own the rights to?
7: When did he pass away?
8: Who purchased the rights to his dictionary after that?
9: When did Webster first publish a dictionary?
10: What about before that?
11: How long did it take him to expand that into something bigger?
12: Did he learn a lot of languages?
13: How many?
14: For what purpose?
15: What was his goal in creating this book?
16: Did people across the country say things differently?
17: Where did he finally finish his work?
18: Where at?
19: Where else?
20: How many words had never been in a dictionary before?
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Nana had a bunch of money. She had saved money her whole life. But Nana was afraid of people stealing her money. She planned to hide it. First she moved it around in her house and hid it behind a wall. Then she put her money in the attic. But she still didn't feel safe about her money. She was sure someone would find it. Finally she took it outside and started digging in the ground. She buried it in the ground so no one would find it. "It is going be safe here," said Nana. She was very pleased that she had hidden her money so well. The next day after breakfast, she went outside to make sure her money was still there. She stopped at the spot she thought she had buried it and began digging. After some time she hadn't found it. She climbed out of the hole and looked around. She had used a tree as a way to mark the spot. But she couldn't tell which tree. The wind was blowing and the trees all looked the same! She had used a brown spot on the ground to mark the spot. But she couldn't tell which brown spot it was! She knew she wasn't lost. Nana had hidden her money so well that no one could find it, and that included her!
Answer the following questions:
1: What did granny have a bunch of?
2: How long had she been saving?
3: and what did she plan to do with it?
4: and where did she hide it?
5: and where next?
6: did she think it was hid well?
7: where did she hide it next?
8: when did she go make sure it was still there?
9: what kind of mark on the ground did she use to know where it was?
10: did she find it?
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Chapter 22 SHORT AND SWEET
In the hall she found Steve and Kitty, for he had hidden his little sweetheart behind the big couch, feeling that she had a right there, having supported his spirits during the late anxiety with great constancy and courage. They seemed so cozy, billing and cooing in the shadow of the gay vase, that Rose would have slipped silently away if they had not seen and called to her. "He's not gone I guess you'll find him in the parlor," said Steve, divining with a lover's instinct the meaning of the quick look she had cast at the hat rack as she shut the study door behind her.
"Mercy, no! Archie and Phebe are there, so he'd have the sense to pop into the sanctum and wait, unless you'd like me to go and bring him out?" added Kitty, smoothing Rose's ruffled hair and settling the flowers on the bosom where Uncle Alec's head had lain until he fell asleep.
"No, thank you, I'll go to him when I've seen my Phebe. She won't mind me," answered Rose, moving on to the parlor.
"Look here," called Steve, "do advise them to hurry up and all be married at once. We were just ready when Uncle fell ill, and now we cannot wait a day later than the first of May."
"Rather short notice," laughed Rose, looking back with the doorknob in her hand.
"We'll give up all our splendor, and do it as simply as you like, if you will only come too. Think how lovely! Three weddings at once! Do fly round and settle things there's a dear," implored Kitty, whose imagination was fired with this romantic idea.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was it she found in the hall?
2: What would rose have done if she wasn't seen by them?
3: Who is in the parlor?
4: Did rose want to go to the parlor?
5: Did steve hide someting behind a couch?
6: Whos hair did Kitty ruffle?
7: Who was it that fell ill?
8: How many wedding were going to be had at once?
9: Who's imagination did thist stir?
10: Was it because Steve and Kitty were in the parlor that Rose would have slipped away?
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CHAPTER XIII
Intense excitement instantly reigned. Their suspense over, the crowd cheered again and again, shook hands with one another, and flung their caps into the air. Everyone was delighted, for everyone was fond of Tell and Walter. It also pleased them to see the Governor disappointed. He had had things his own way for so long that it was a pleasant change to see him baffled in this manner. Not since Switzerland became a nation had the meadow outside the city gates been the scene of such rejoicings.
Walter had picked up the apple with the arrow piercing it, and was showing it proudly to all his friends.
"I told you so," he kept saying; "I knew father wouldn't hurt me. Father's the best shot in all Switzerland."
"That was indeed a shot!" exclaimed Ulric the smith; "it will ring through the ages. While the mountains stand will the tale of Tell the bowman be told."
Rudolph der Harras took the apple from Walter and showed it to Gessler, who had been sitting transfixed on his horse.
"See," he said, "the arrow has passed through the very centre. It was a master shot."
"It was very nearly a 'Master Walter shot,'" said Rösselmann the priest severely, fixing the Governor with a stern eye.
Gessler made no answer. He sat looking moodily at Tell, who had dropped his cross-bow and was standing motionless, still gazing in the direction in which the arrow had sped. Nobody liked to be the first to speak to him.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many different things did the crowd do?
2: who took the apple from someone?
3: name one things the crowd did?
4: who did der Harras show the apple to?
5: What went in the air?
6: What had Gessler been doing
7: where?
8: Who did the crowd support?
9: Where did the arrow go?
10: Did the people enjoy the politician's upset?
11: was Walter close to being shot?
12: When was the last time there was such fun?
13: Was the priest happy with the man in charge?
14: who picked the apple up?
15: what kind of look did the man of God give the politician
16: Is Ulric a farmer?
17: what does Walter think of his dad's aim?
18: best in the world?
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Leonhard Euler ( ; ; ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer who made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics like infinitesimal calculus and graph theory while also making pioneering contributions to several branches such as topology and analytic number theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a mathematical function. He is also known for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, astronomy, and music theory.
Euler was one of the most eminent mathematicians of the 18th century, and is held to be one of the greatest in history. He is also widely considered to be the most prolific mathematician of all time. His collected works fill 60 to 80 quarto volumes, more than anybody in the field. He spent most of his adult life in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in Berlin, then the capital of Prussia.
A statement attributed to Pierre-Simon Laplace expresses Euler's influence on mathematics: "Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all."
Leonhard Euler was born on 15 April 1707, in Basel, Switzerland to Paul III Euler, a pastor of the Reformed Church, and Marguerite Brucker, a pastor's daughter. He had two younger sisters: Anna Maria and Maria Magdalena, and a younger brother Johann Heinrich. Soon after the birth of Leonhard, the Eulers moved from Basel to the town of Riehen, where Euler spent most of his childhood. Paul Euler was a friend of the Bernoulli family; Johann Bernoulli was then regarded as Europe's foremost mathematician, and would eventually be the most important influence on young Leonhard.
Answer the following questions:
1: What important branches of science did Leonhard Euler make important discoveries in?
2: What year was he born?
3: How many volumes did his work contain?
4: What is the name of Eiler's father?
5: Where did he spend most of his adult life?
6: What is the name of Europe's foremost mathematician he was friends with?
7: What was Berlin the capital of?
8: Did Eluer have any siblings?
9: What area of study did Euler introduce much of the modern terminology and notation for?
10: What was the town Euler spent most of his childhood in?
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(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal recovered from a rusty start to power into the second round of Wimbledon with a straight-sets win over Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci on Tuesday.
The two-time champion bounced back in style after losing the first four games of the match against the 80th-ranked Bellucci.
Nadal won the next four, before smashing his South American opponent 7-0 in the first-set tie break and then wrapping up the remaining sets 6-2 6-3.
"It's always tough to make the change from clay to grass, especially when over the last couple of months I played almost every match on tour," said Nadal, who won the French Open earlier this month.
"I had more mistakes than usual and I was very lucky to come back from 4-0."
Champion Kvitova battles through in women's first round
Great Britain's Andy Murray made an impressive start to the tournament as he bids to become the first home winner of the men's singles since Fred Perry in 1936.
The world number four made short work of beating Russia's Nikolay Davydenko 6-1 6-1 6-4, and the British number one also looked in peak physical form following recent fitness concerns.
But it was a day to forget for Australia's men's players, with none making the second round at the All England Club for the first time since 1938.
No. 20 seed Bernard Tomic, who made the quarterfinals last year, slumped to a surprise 3-6 6-3 6-4 6-4 defeat against Belgian wildcard David Goffin.
"I have slacked off a little bit and look what it's costing me. It's a lack of concentration, not working hard," admitted the 19-year-old after the defeat.
Answer the following questions:
1: What sport is this article about?
2: Which tournament?
3: Did Nadal beat his opponent?
4: Who was that?
5: From what country?
6: Did Nadal lose any of the sets?
7: What other tournament did he win recently?
8: When was that?
9: How many times has he won Wimbledon?
10: Did he make any mistakes?
11: What is Bellucci's rank?
12: Where is Andy Murray from?
13: Is Wimbledon played there?
14: Who last won from Great Britain?
15: When?
16: What is Murray's rank?
17: And Bernard Tomic?
18: At what club is Wimbledon played?
19: Did anyone from Australia win their match?
20: What country is David Goffin from?
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CHAPTER XVII
South they held along the coast, hunting, fishing, swimming, and horse-buying. Billy shipped his purchases on the coasting steamers. Through Del Norte and Humboldt counties they went, and through Mendocino into Sonoma--counties larger than Eastern states--threading the giant woods, whipping innumerable trout-streams, and crossing countless rich valleys. Ever Saxon sought the valley of the moon. Sometimes, when all seemed fair, the lack was a railroad, sometimes madrono and manzanita trees, and, usually, there was too much fog.
"We do want a sun-cocktail once in a while," she told Billy.
"Yep," was his answer. "Too much fog might make us soggy. What we're after is betwixt an' between, an' we'll have to get back from the coast a ways to find it."
This was in the fall of the year, and they turned their backs on the Pacific at old Fort Ross and entered the Russian River Valley, far below Ukiah, by way of Cazadero and Guerneville. At Santa Rosa Billy was delayed with the shipping of several horses, so that it was not until afternoon that he drove south and east for Sonoma Valley.
"I guess we'll no more than make Sonoma Valley when it'll be time to camp," he said, measuring the sun with his eye. "This is called Bennett Valley. You cross a divide from it and come out at Glen Ellen. Now this is a mighty pretty valley, if anybody should ask you. An' that's some nifty mountain over there."
"The mountain is all right," Saxon adjudged. "But all the rest of the hills are too bare. And I don't see any big trees. It takes rich soil to make big trees."
Answer the following questions:
1: What direction were they headed?
2: What did they seek?
3: Did they do anything along the way?
4: Like what?
5: Anything else
6: What else?
7: Did they buy anything?
8: What?
9: How did they transport what they'd bought?
10: Who was responsible for doing this?
11: Did they travel through forest?
12: What was there an excess of?
13: What was there an occasional dearth of?
14: Did the female character feel they needed sunshine?
15: Did her companion agree?
16: What slowed them down?
17: Where?
18: At what point did they move away from the ocean?
19: When did they arrive at Sonoma Valley?
20: How did the male character describe Bennett Valley?
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Pedro Rossi is happy--he is very,very happy! He won $500,000! He won the lottery ! Pedro is happy for only a few days. Then he remembers his lottery ticket! He throws it in the garbage _ ! Pedro runs to the garbage can and looks in it. The garbage can is not over there at all! "The garbage is gone,"his wife says. "The garbage truck comes in the morning." The garbage truck takes the garbage can to the garbage dump ! Pedro runs to the dump. He looks for it for two days. But he can't find it. Pedro lives in town in Brazil. Pedro tells the people in the town,"Look for my lottery ticket at the dump. If you find it,I can give you half the money." Everyday hundreds of people go to the dump to look for the ticket. Five days later,a man finds it. Pedro gives the man $250,000. Pedro won $500,000 in the lottery. Now he won only 250,000. But he is not sad. "Before,one man was happy,"Pedro says. "Now two men are happy!"
Answer the following questions:
1: Why was Pedro so happy?
2: Did his happiness last long?
3: What happened take make his happiness so short lived?
4: Where was it?
5: Was he able to find it in the garbage can?
6: Why not?
7: When did the garbage truck pick it up?
8: Where does the city's garbage end up?
9: Why were so many people headed towards the garbage dump?
10: What was their incentive to do this?
11: Did anyone find the ticket?
12: Who?
13: Was Pedro happy for the man who found the ticket?
14: How long did it take for someone to find the ticket?
15: Where does Pedro live?
16: Who reminded him that the garbage had been taken out already?
17: How did he get to the dump?
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The emergence of resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is a common phenomenon. Emergence of resistance often reflects evolutionary processes that take place during antibiotic therapy. The antibiotic treatment may select for bacterial strains with physiologically or genetically enhanced capacity to survive high doses of antibiotics. Under certain conditions, it may result in preferential growth of resistant bacteria, while growth of susceptible bacteria is inhibited by the drug. For example, antibacterial selection for strains having previously acquired antibacterial-resistance genes was demonstrated in 1943 by the Luria–Delbrück experiment. Antibiotics such as penicillin and erythromycin, which used to have a high efficacy against many bacterial species and strains, have become less effective, due to the increased resistance of many bacterial strains.
The successful outcome of antimicrobial therapy with antibacterial compounds depends on several factors. These include host defense mechanisms, the location of infection, and the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of the antibacterial. A bactericidal activity of antibacterials may depend on the bacterial growth phase, and it often requires ongoing metabolic activity and division of bacterial cells. These findings are based on laboratory studies, and in clinical settings have also been shown to eliminate bacterial infection. Since the activity of antibacterials depends frequently on its concentration, in vitro characterization of antibacterial activity commonly includes the determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration and minimum bactericidal concentration of an antibacterial. To predict clinical outcome, the antimicrobial activity of an antibacterial is usually combined with its pharmacokinetic profile, and several pharmacological parameters are used as markers of drug efficacy.
Answer the following questions:
1: What was demonstrated in 1943?
2: By what?
3: What has been less effective?
4: What kind?
5: What is dependent on several factors?
6: What does that include?
7: What might depend on the growth phase?
8: What does it require?
9: Anything else?
10: What might get rid of infections?
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Many Americans have been leaving their cars at home and riding to work on bicycles. Andy Clark is the leader of the League of American Bicyclists. His group supports bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation.
Clark says this is good news for the environment. He says riding a bicycle to work does not burn fossil fuel or creates dangerous pollutions. Experts say the effects are the most important on short trips. The Department of Transportation says fifty percent of Americans drive eight kilometers or fewer to work. Shorter car trips set out more pollution into the air for each kilometer drive. This is because the car engine will set out the harmful air when it warms up before it can work well.
James, a members of Congress , is a strong supporter of bicycle use. He says cities, counties, state governments and state highway transportation agencies are planning the roadways of the future. They are creating roads and paths for bicycles in cities and between communities.
Last year, Portland, the Pacific Northwest city in the state of Oregon, had the highest percentage of bicycle users in the United States. Portland has been doing progressive city planning for many years to create special paths for bike riders.
Answer the following questions:
1: What have many people swapped out cars for?
2: What is the role of Andy Clark?
3: What percentage of Americans drive less than 8 kilometers to work?
4: What do these trips do the environment?
5: Does Congress mentioned support bicycle use?
6: What city has the most bicycle uSers in the U.S.?
7: Are transportation agencies doing anything to encourage more bicycle uers?
8: Besides transportation, what does the group support bicycling for?
9: How long did it take Portland to setup for bicyclists?
10: What type of fuel is avoided with bicycle use?
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Lily has a pen friend in America. Her name is Alice. They write to each other every week. They tell each other about their lives. Here is a letter from Lily. Dear Alice, Thank you for your letter and telling me about your best friend. In this letter, I'm going to tell you about my friend. Her name is Cathy. She has long brown hair and blue eyes. She is the same age as me, but a little taller .She is always happy. We sit together in class and help each other with our homework. We always play together after school and play computer games for an hour. Cathy thinks quickly and does better than me. She is learning to play the piano .I am learning to play the piano, too. We play together every day. It's fun. We always have a good time. Please write to me soon. Love, Lily
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is in America?
2: Who is she writing to?
3: How often?
4: Who wrote the letter?
5: Who is it about?
6: How old is she?
7: What are they learning?
8: Who is happy?
9: What color is her hair?
10: What do they do in the afternoon?
11: Who is taller?
12: Who has a good time?
13: What does Lily want?
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(CNN) -- It was the moment the world had been waiting for, and as he has so often in his glittering career, Lionel Messi delivered.
After a frantic opening to the World Cup in Brazil with entertainment and goals aplenty, one of its gold-plated stars announced his arrival in style.
A trademark slaloming run from the Barcelona striker ended in the fashion soccer fans have become well accustomed to -- with the net rippling.
In truth, Argentina were far from their best against the World Cup debutantes Bosnia and Herzegovina despite going 1-0 up thanks to the quickest goal at the World Cup to date.
Sead Kolasinac was the unwitting scorer, diverting the ball into his own net after a Messi free kick was glanced on by Marcos Rojo.
Alejandro Sabella's men couldn't build on that early lead though as Bosnia and Herzegovina held their own until the interval.
Argentina's lead was doubled on 65 minutes thanks to a piece of magic from their talisman.
Messi swapped passes with Gonzalo HiguaÃn and sidestepped two challenges before firing home off the inside of the post via a slight deflection.
His vigorous celebration perhaps showed the pressure he was under to perform, as the endless comparisons to Argentina's other world famous player -- Diego Maradona -- go on.
A goal from substitute Vedad Ibisevic ensured a nervy final six minutes but Argentina held out to secure three important points.
France 3-0 Honduras
The first World Cup goal to be awarded via goal-line technology helped France to a convincing 3-0 victory over 10-man Honduras in Porto Alegre.
Answer the following questions:
1: what had the world been waiting for?
2: who?
3: what country did he play for?
4: was Messi compared to anyone?
5: What was Messi playing in?
6: was it played in a country?
7: what type of opening was it?
8: why?
9: were there stars?
10: What happened to Argentina's lead?
11: for what duration?
12: why did it double?
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When Mr. Brown entered the classroom that Friday morning, he stopped at the blackboard. For there, on the blackboard, were words in huge red letters: BROWN IS STUPID! Mr. Brown thought for a moment. This could only have been the work of one of the four boys who had been kept in after school the day before. Mr. Brown turned the blackboard around so that the words could not be seen. Half an hour later,Mr. Brown wrote four names on the board: Gerald, Alex, Michael and Laurie. Then he said, "I want these four to stay in the classroom. The rest of you may go to the playground." The four boys came to the blackboard. "One of you has written a most impolite remark on the blackboard," he stared at them and _ , "which one of you did it?" The four boys gathered closer together, afraid of what was to come. "Was it you, Gerald?" Gerald shook his head. "No, it was not me, Sir," he gave the teacher a most sincere look in his wide eyes. "What do you have to say, Alex?" "I don't know anything about it, Sir," said Alex, and his ears turned red. Michael had a bright idea. "Perhaps someone broke in during the night," he said. "And when he saw the lovely red chalk lying there, he wrote something on the blackboard." "Is that the best you can think so, Michael?" asked the teacher. "I only thought ..." "And what about you, Laurie?" Laurie said in a rather low voice, "I didn't do it, Sir. I don't even know what it says on the blackboard." "You really don't know what's written there?" Mr. Brown asked. "And I don't think dear Gerald knows either." "No, Sir. No idea." "Michael, Alex, can either of you tell me what it says on the blackboard?" "No, Sir!" the two boys answered together. Brown walked forward and his fingers seized a schoolboy. He said in his kindest and softest voice to the other three boys, "Very well. I only punish the one who has been telling lies, and you three may go to the playground!"
Answer the following questions:
1: How many young men are involved in the story?
2: what were they called?
3: were they well behaved?
4: Did they all get to go to recess?
5: Who was the instructor?
6: Did the story take place in church?
7: Where were they?
8: Was the instructor happy with the young men?
9: why?
10: what did they write?
11: did the instructor send the other students home?
12: Where did he send them?
13: was the writing in small letters?
14: what color was it?
15: did they use a marker to write on the board?
16: what did they use?
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McCune–Reischauer romanization () is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems. A modified version of McCune–Reischauer was the official romanization system in South Korea until 2000, when it was replaced by the Revised Romanization of Korean system. A variant of McCune–Reischauer is still used as the official system in North Korea.
The system was created in 1937 by George M. McCune and Edwin O. Reischauer. With a few exceptions, it attempts not to transliterate Korean hangul but to represent the phonetic pronunciation. McCune–Reischauer is widely used outside Korea.
Korean has phonologically no distinction between voiced and voiceless consonants, but it phonetically distinguishes them. Aspirated consonants like "p'", "k'", and "t'" are distinguished by apostrophe from unaspirated ones, which may be falsely understood as a separator between syllables (as in → "twich'agi", which consists of the syllables "twi", "ch'a" and "gi"). The apostrophe is also used to mark transcriptions of ("n'g") as opposed to ("ng"): → "chan'gŭm" vs. → "changŭm").
Critics of the McCune–Reischauer system claim that casual users of the system omit the breves ( ˘ ) over the "o" for and the "u" for because typing "o" or "u" without the breves is often easier than adding them. That can lead to confusion over whether the "o" being romanized is or or the "u" being Romanized is or . Casual users also often omit the apostrophe that differentiates aspirated consonants (, , , and ) from their unaspirated counterparts (, , , and ), which can also lead to confusion.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many romanization systems does Korea predominately use?
2: Which is the official system?
3: Who created the McCune-Reischauer system?
4: Did he have help?
5: From who?
6: What year was it created?
7: How long was it the official South Korean system?
8: In what country is a variant of the original still the official system?
9: Is used elsewhere, also?
10: Does it attempt to translate characters, or sound them out?
11: What do casual users sometime leave out?
12: What punctuation is used to separate aspirated and non-aspirated consonants?
13: What can it be mistaken for?
14: What are a few consonants that use this puncuation?
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(CNN)Thousands gathered in Riyadh on Friday to say farewell to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud, a cautious reformer who succeeded in securing broader freedoms in the conservative kingdom, but fell short in gaining greater independence for women.
Abdullah died early Friday, several weeks after the state-run Saudi Press Agency said he was suffering from pneumonia and had been admitted to a hospital. The royal court didn't release an exact cause of death. He was 90.
To ensure a smooth transition, the kingdom quickly appointed his 79-year-old half-brother, Salman bin Abdulaziz, to the throne. His half-brother Prince Muqrin, a decade younger, is the new crown prince.
Who is Salman bin Abdulaziz?
After Friday afternoon prayers at Riyadh's Imam Turki Bin Abdullah Grand Mosque, the body of Abdullah, wrapped in a pale shroud, was carried from the mosque toward a cemetery, followed by a solemn procession of Saudi men in traditional dress.
He was later laid to rest after a simple, swift ceremony. Those present at the graveside -- the royals closest to the late king -- were then to move on to a royal palace, where they were to pay their respects to the new monarch.
The ceremony of "al Bayaah," or pledging of allegiance to the new king, followed the funeral.
Condolences and remembrances poured in from all corners of the globe.
"To God we belong and indeed to him we shall return," said the homepage of the English-language Saudi newspaper Arab News.
Bahrain, Jordan and the Palestinian territories, among others, declared days of mourning. The U.N. secretary-general praised Abdullah for his Arab Peace Initiative to end the Arab-Israeli conflict. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said he would lead a delegation "in the coming days" to pay respects.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who died?
2: When?
3: How old was he?
4: What he was suffering from prior to his death?
5: Was he taken to the hospital?
6: Did they anything about the cause of the death?
7: Who is the new king now?
8: What's his name?
9: Who is the crown prince now?
10: Is he younger than the new king?
11: How young?
12: Then how old is the king?
13: Where was the funeral service?
14: At what Mosque?
15: Then where the body was carried toward?
16: Was there a procession?
17: Who did that?
18: What is al Bayaah?
19: What other countries declared days of mourning?
20: Who would represent US there?
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A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals), in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species.
Hunting and gathering was humanity's first and most successful adaptation, occupying at least 90 percent of human history. Following the invention of agriculture, hunter-gatherers have been displaced or conquered by farming or pastoralist groups in most parts of the world.
Only a few contemporary societies are classified as hunter-gatherers, and many supplement their foraging activity with horticulture and/or keeping animals.
In the 1950s, Lewis Binford suggested that early humans were obtaining meat via scavenging, not hunting. Early humans in the Lower Paleolithic lived in forests and woodlands, which allowed them to collect seafood, eggs, nuts, and fruits besides scavenging. Rather than killing large animals for meat, according to this view, they used carcasses of such animals that had either been killed by predators or that had died of natural causes. Archaeological and genetic data suggest that the source populations of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers survived in sparsely wooded areas and dispersed through areas of high primary productivity while avoiding dense forest cover.
Answer the following questions:
1: Are any current societies considered hunter gatherers?
2: What else do those societies do?
3: What is a hunter gatherer?
4: How come agricultural groups are different?
5: How much of our history was hunting and gathering done in?
6: When were they displaced?
7: When did Lewis Binford comment about scavenging?
8: What other foods did people in the Lower Paleolithic collect?
9: Was it thought that they killed big animals?
10: Where did the carcasses come from?
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CHAPTER XVI
ALECK BRINGS NEWS
"I reckon we got square," was Tom's comment, after the fun was over and they were on their way to the farm. "My, but wasn't that circus owner mad!"
"I don't think he'll have another such crowd to-night," said Fred, and he was right. The evening performance was attended by less than a hundred people, and a week later the show failed and was sold out completely.
By the end of the week word was received from both the Stanhopes and the Lanings that all would be glad to join the Rovers in their houseboat vacation. They would take a train for Pittsburg direct on the following Wednesday morning and would there await their friends.
"This suits me to a T!" cried Dick, after reading the communication Dora had sent him. "If we don't have the best time ever then it will be our own fault."
"Just what I say," answered Sam, who had received a long letter from Grace.
There were many articles to pack and ship to Pittsburg. The boys also made out a long list of the things to be purchased for the trip, and in this their father and their aunt helped them.
Sunday passed quietly, all of the boys attending both church and Sunday school. It was a hard matter for Tom to keep still on the Sabbath day, but he did so, much to his aunt's comfort.
Aleck Pop was highly delighted to think that he was to be taken along, especially as cook.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where were the boys heading?
2: coming from where?
3: Did the circus continue to be popular?
4: What kind of vacation were the Rovers planning?
5: where would it begin?
6: Were they going alone?
7: Who was coming with them?
8: How would the Rovers get to Pittsburg?
9: when?
10: Who had received a letter from Dora?
11: Did anyone else receive a letter?
12: Who?
13: Who was it from?
14: Is there anyone else they would take with them?
15: Who?
16: What would his job be?
17: How did he feel about that?
18: What did the boys do on Sunday?
19: Was Tom active on Sundays?
20: Why?
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Chapter 12: Harry Carried Off.
Early in September, Stanley was sent to purchase cattle from some of the villages near the foot of the hills and, at the same time, to make inquiries as to the movements of a large band of marauders who had been making raids in that neighbourhood. He had with him four troopers of the bodyguard. Harry Brooke accompanied him. Although from the healthier situation of Prome, the amount of illness during the wet season did not approach that which had been suffered at Rangoon, a great many men were in hospital, and there were many deaths. Harry had had a sharp attack of fever and, as he had now recovered, to a certain extent, the medical officer of his regiment strongly recommended that he should have a change; and he therefore, without difficulty, obtained his colonel's leave to accompany Stanley, as the ground would be much higher than that on the river, and the mere fact of getting away from a camp where so many deaths took place every day would, in itself, be of great value.
Stanley's daily journeys were not likely to be long ones, as he had instructions to stop at all villages; and to see how things were going on, and whether the people had any complaints to make of oppression and exaction by their local authorities.
"It is a tremendous pull, your being able to speak the language, Stanley," Harry said. "If it hadn't been for that, you would have been stuck at Prome, like the rest of us. Instead of that, you are always about; and you look as fresh and healthy as if you were at a hill station, in India."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was going on trips every day?
2: Are they short?
3: Where is he supposed to be stopping?
4: For what purpose?
5: What was he supposed to learn from the villagers?
6: About what?
7: Who speaks the local dialect?
8: Where would he be if he couldn't?
9: Does he appear sickly?
10: Who's with him?
11: Had Harry been sickly?
12: With what?
13: What did the doctor recommend?
14: An example of that?
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Marvin woke up on Monday morning. He yawned and stretched and got out of bed to go to the bathroom. When he got there he brushed his teeth and combed his hair. He went to the kitchen, where he poured some milk into his favorite green bowl and added some cereal. After he finished eating, he went back up to his bedroom to choose his clothes for the day. He put on a red T-shirt and blue jeans, and some funny blue-and-yellow socks. He looked in the mirror and smiled. It was going to be a good day. Marvin thought he would go for a walk. He opened his door and went outside. The sun was shining and he could hear the bluebirds in the trees. Marvin started to whistle a happy song as he made his way down the street. He counted the cars that passed by. Along the way he saw his friend Lisa, and waved to her. She waved back, and came over. "Hi Marvin," she said. "Do you want to go to the lake today?" Marvin smiled. "Yeah!" he said, "let me go home and get my things." So Marvin turned right around and went back home.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who woke up on Monday morning?
2: What did he do when he woke up?
3: Did he brush his teeth?
4: Did he comb his hair?
5: What room did he go to next?
6: Did he make something to eat?
7: What did he pick out to wear?
8: What did he want to do after that?
9: Was it sunny out?
10: What kinds of birds did he hear?
11: Did he whistle a song?
12: What did he do next?
13: Did he see any friend's?
14: Where were the bluebirds?
15: Did Marvin want to go to the lake?
16: Did he need to go home?
17: Why?
18: Did he go home?
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CHAPTER XLI
THE COLONEL SPEAKS
Wrayson glanced at the clock for the twentieth time.
"I am afraid," he said gravely, "that Mr. Sydney Barnes has been one too many for us."
"Do you think," Louise asked, "that he has persuaded the girl to give him the packet?"
"It looks like it," Wrayson confessed.
Louise frowned.
"Of course," she said, "I think that you were mad to let her go before. She had the letters here in the room. You would have been perfectly justified in taking them from her."
"I suppose so," Wrayson assented, doubtfully. "Somehow she seemed to get the upper hand of us towards the end. I think she suspected that some of us knew more than we cared to tell her about--her husband's death."
Louise shivered a little and remained silent. Wrayson walked to the window and back.
"To tell you the truth," he said, "I expected some one else here to-night who has failed to turn up."
"Who is that?" the Baroness asked.
Wrayson hesitated for a moment and glanced towards Louise.
"Colonel Fitzmaurice," he said.
Louise seemed to turn suddenly rigid. She looked at him steadfastly for a moment without speaking.
"My father," she murmured at last.
Wrayson nodded.
"Yes!" he said.
"But--what has he to do with this?" Louise asked, with her eyes fixed anxiously, almost fearfully, upon his.
"I went to him for advice," Wrayson said quietly. "He has been always very kind, and I thought it possible that he might be able to help us. He promised to be here at the same hour as the others. Listen! There is the bell at last."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is checking the time?
2: Who is he with?
3: Who is he waiting for?
4: Is that person related to Louisa?
5: How?
6: Who else is mentioned?
7: What do they think he has done?
8: To do what?
9: What was in it?
10: Where had they been kept?
11: What did the girl think?
12: About what?
13: Why was there visitor invited?
14: When was he supposed to come?
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(CNN) -- Canadian ski resort gondola cars that were left dangling and swaying with terrified skiers inside failed because ice buildup snapped a supporting tower, the resort said Thursday.
One gondola car is suspended above an icy creek at a ski resort near Whistler, British Columbia.
In a rare occurrence called ice-jacking, water seeped into the lower section of the lift tower and turned to ice Tuesday at Whistler Blackcomb resort, 177 kilometers (110 miles) north of Vancouver, a resort official said in a press release Thursday.
The lift hangs from a tower that is spliced into two parts.
Extremely cold temperatures caused the ice buildup that exerted 800 tons of pressure between the two parts that hold the tower together, causing them to rupture, according to Whistler Blackcomb.
The section of the lift affected by the accident had 15 cars going up the mountain and 15 coming down at the time, but they weren't carrying a lot of passengers, according to Doug Forseth, senior vice president of the resort.
He said 53 passengers had been rescued from the stranded cars.
No skiers at the Whistler, British Columbia, resort were seriously injured.
"The towers are not normally designed to allow for any water penetration and so this failure is a very unusual situation," said Warren Sparks, senior vice president of Doppelmayr Canada, the engineering firm that investigated the accident.
They are trying to figure out what caused the water to pool. He said independent structural engineers are examining the tower from Vancouver-based CVMM Consulting Engineers.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where were the gondola cars in trouble at?
2: What is the rare occurrence called that caused the problem?
3: What was the amount of pressure that build up because of the extremely cold temperatures?
4: What is the name of the town that one of the gondola cars was suspened above an icy creak near?
5: Were any of the Skiers seriously injured?
6: How far is the resord from Vancouver?
7: Who is examining the towers to figure out exactly what happened?
8: Are the towers normally designed for this type of thing?
9: How many cars were going up the mountan on the section of the lift that was affected?
10: Were they carrying a lot of passengers?
11: How many were recured from the stranded cars?
12: Who is Doug Forseth?
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A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in. They can be found over a range of continents. Biomes are distinct biological communities that have formed in response to a shared physical climate. "Biome" is a broader term than "habitat"; any biome can comprise a variety of habitats.
While a biome can cover large areas, a microbiome is a mix of organisms that coexist in a defined space on a much smaller scale. For example, the human microbiome is the collection of bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms that are present on a human body.
A 'biota' is the total collection of organisms of a geographic region or a time period, from local geographic scales and instantaneous temporal scales all the way up to whole-planet and whole-timescale spatiotemporal scales. The biotas of the Earth make up the biosphere.
The term was suggested in 1916 by Clements, originally as a synonym for biotic community of Möbius (1877). Later, it gained its current definition, based on earlier concepts of phytophysiognomy, formation and vegetation (used in opposition to flora), with the inclusion of the animal element and the exclusion of the taxonomic element of species composition. In 1935, Tansley added the climatic and soil aspects to the idea, calling it ecosystem. The International Biological Program (1964–74) projects popularized the concept of biome.
Answer the following questions:
1: What's the topic at hand?
2: Are the large or small?
3: When was the term coined?
4: By?
5: What name did it get in 1935?
6: Who named it?
7: What was one thing he added to the idea?
8: Name another?
9: What is related to 1877?
10: What has the same meaning as it?
11: What projects were going on in the mid 60s to early 70s?
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Everton were founder members of the Premier League in 1992, but struggled to find the right manager. Howard Kendall had returned in 1990 but could not repeat his previous success, while his successor, Mike Walker, was statistically the least successful Everton manager to date. When former Everton player Joe Royle took over in 1994 the club's form started to improve; his first game in charge was a 2–0 victory over derby rivals Liverpool. Royle dragged Everton clear of relegation, leading the club to the FA Cup for the fifth time in its history, defeating Manchester United 1–0 in the final.
The Tower has been inextricably linked with the Everton area since its construction in 1787. It was originally used as a bridewell to incarcerate mainly drunks and minor criminals, and it still stands today on Everton Brow in Netherfield Road. The tower was accompanied by two laurel wreaths on either side and, according to the College of Arms in London, Kelly chose to include the laurels as they were the sign of winners. The crest was accompanied by the club motto, "Nil Satis Nisi Optimum", meaning "Nothing but the best is good enough".
Answer the following questions:
1: When was it founded?
2: What League was involved?
3: What was the score of Joe Royle's first game?
4: What did Royle achieve with the team that yea?
5: Where is the Rock located today?
6: Where is the Tower located today?
7: What is on each side of the Tower?
8: What are they a sign of?
9: Who wanted to include them?
10: Who's this according to?
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CHAPTER II
NEWCOMERS AT THE ACADEMY
"Dan Baxter has escaped!" repeated Dick. "That is news indeed. Does your father give my particulars?"
"He says it is reported that the jailer was sick and unable to stop Dan."
"Humph! Then they must have had some sort of a row," put in Tom. "Well, it does beat the nation how the Baxters do it. Don't you remember how Arnold Baxter escaped from the hospital authorities last year?"
"Those Baxters are as slick as you can make them," said Frank. "I've been thinking if Dan would dare to show himself around Putnam Hall."
"Not he!" cried Larry. "He'll travel as far can and as fast as he can."
"Perhaps not," mused Dick. "I rather he will hang around and try to help his father out of prison."
"That won't help him, for the authorities will be on strict guard now. You know the stable door is always locked after the horse is stolen."
At this there was a general laugh, and when it ended a loud roll of a drum made the young cadets hurry to the front of the parade ground.
"Fall in, Companies A and B!" came the command from the major of the battalion, and the boys fell in. Dick was now a first lieutenant, while Tom and Sam were first and second sergeants respectively.
As soon as the companies were formed they were marched around the Hall and to the messroom. Here they were kept standing in a long fine while George Strong came to the front with half a dozen new pupils.
Answer the following questions:
1: Did someone flee?
2: Who was that?
3: Who was the informant?
4: Did the warden try to stop?
5: What was Frank's impression of the escapee?
6: Why Dan would try to be around?
7: Is his father also imprisoned?
8: Did they think he will attempt to release him?
9: Did they think the bosses will be alert?
10: Were they amused about the situation?
11: What is Dicks rank now?
12: What about other two?
13: How many military companies are there?
14: Do they have any designation?
15: What are their companies called?
16: Who would be ahead of them?
17: Are they doing any drills?
18: Then where are they?
19: Are they just stationed there?
20: What are they doing then?
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The movement was pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, joined by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, Fernand Léger and Juan Gris. A primary influence that led to Cubism was the representation of three-dimensional form in the late works of Paul Cézanne. A retrospective of Cézanne's paintings had been held at the Salon d'Automne of 1904, current works were displayed at the 1905 and 1906 Salon d'Automne, followed by two commemorative retrospectives after his death in 1907.
In France, offshoots of Cubism developed, including Orphism, Abstract art and later Purism. In other countries Futurism, Suprematism, Dada, Constructivism and De Stijl developed in response to Cubism. Early Futurist paintings hold in common with Cubism the fusing of the past and the present, the representation of different views of the subject pictured at the same time, also called multiple perspective, simultaneity or multiplicity, while Constructivism was influenced by Picasso's technique of constructing sculpture from separate elements. Other common threads between these disparate movements include the faceting or simplification of geometric forms, and the association of mechanization and modern life.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the art movement the article is discussing?
2: Who started it?
3: Which artist was a major influence on them?
4: His early paintings?
5: What led to them seeing his art?
6: Where at?
7: When did this occur?
8: Were those mostly his later works?
9: When were those first seen?
10: What style did Cezanne incorporate that was so influential?
11: Did other artists besides Picasso and Braque jump on board?
12: How was constructivism influenced by Picasso?
13: Did cubism lead to other art forms?
14: Which developed in France?
15: Did different types of art start up in other countries as well?
16: What were these called?
17: Were all of these related to cubism?
18: What is one thing that futurist paintings get from cubism?
19: What does the term "multiple perspective" mean?
20: Would the association of mechanization and modern life be related to these art forms?
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Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment, at which time the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke.
Duke's campus spans over on three contiguous campuses in Durham as well as a marine lab in Beaufort. The main campus—designed largely by architect Julian Abele—incorporates Gothic architecture with the Duke Chapel at the campus' center and highest point of elevation. The first-year-populated East Campus contains Georgian-style architecture, while the main Gothic-style West Campus away is adjacent to the Medical Center. Duke is the seventh-wealthiest private university in America with $11.4 billion in cash and investments in fiscal year 2014.
Duke's research expenditures in the 2015 fiscal year were $1.037 billion, the seventh largest in the nation. In 2014, Thomson Reuters named 32 of Duke's professors to its list of Highly Cited Researchers, making it fourth globally in terms of primary affiliations. Duke also ranks fifth among national universities to have produced Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall Scholars. Ten Nobel laureates and three Turing Award winners are affiliated with the university. Duke's sports teams compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference and the basketball team is renowned for having won five NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championships, most recently in 2015.
Answer the following questions:
1: Does Duke have a marine laboratory>
2: Where is that?
3: Who designed the main campus?
4: Does it incorporate the Gothic style?
5: What other style is evident?
6: Where can that be found?
7: Is that where most seniors are?
8: What is the tallest part of Duke?
9: Where in the school would I find that?
10: What is next to the West Campus?
11: Is Duke a public college?
12: How much is it worth?
13: How many of its teachers made the list of Highly Cited Researchers?
14: How many schools worldwide had more than that?
15: Is Duke part of the Big Ten conference?
16: Which is it in then?
17: What sport is Duke most known for?
18: When was their last NCAA basketball title?
19: What city is Duke in?
20: Was it formed by Catholics?
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Although there is some evidence of earlier inhabitation in the region of Utrecht, dating back to the Stone Age (app. 2200 BCE) and settling in the Bronze Age (app. 1800–800 BCE), the founding date of the city is usually related to the construction of a Roman fortification (castellum), probably built in around 50 CE. A series of such fortresses was built after the Roman emperor Claudius decided the empire should not expand north. To consolidate the border the limes Germanicus defense line was constructed along the main branch of the river Rhine, which at that time flowed through a more northern bed compared to today (what is now the Kromme Rijn). These fortresses were designed to house a cohort of about 500 Roman soldiers. Near the fort settlements would grow housing artisans, traders and soldiers' wives and children.
From the middle of the 3rd century Germanic tribes regularly invaded the Roman territories. Around 275 the Romans could no longer maintain the northern border and Utrecht was abandoned. Little is known about the next period 270–650. Utrecht is first spoken of again several centuries after the Romans left. Under the influence of the growing realms of the Franks, during Dagobert I's reign in the 7th century, a church was built within the walls of the Roman fortress. In ongoing border conflicts with the Frisians this first church was destroyed.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is Utrecht's official found date?
2: What two ages can it be traced back to?
3: Who decided not to grow northward?
4: What did he do to prevent this?
5: When was the city eventually abandoned?
6: What was built under the Franks?
7: What eventually happened to it?
8: What caused it?
9: With whom?
10: What is used to identify the founding of the city?
11: What defense was along the river?
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Jane Scott is fourteen and the year before last she began to study in a middle school. She likes dancing and singing and spends a lot of time on them. But she hates math and does not work hard at it. She thinks it difficult to learn. She falls behind her classmates and once failed the math exam. She decides to drop it. Her father is angry with her when he knows about it. It was Sunday. Mr Scott gave a call to his sister, who teaches math in another school. He hoped she would come and tell his daughter how to learn math. The woman came quickly and said. "You're a clever girl, Jane. I'm sure you'll soon do well in math if you work hard at it." "I'm afraid I can't, Aunt," said Jane, "Girls can't be good at math." "I don't think so," said the woman. "I was good at it when was a girl. You must do more exercises and practice a math problem again and again until you master it. Remember: Practice makes perfect. Well, it's a math problem. Think about it and practice it again, and you'll work it out." "OK," said the girl, "Let me try." About an hour later, Jane took the exercise book to her aunt and said, "I've done the problem ten times." "Well done!" her aunt said happily, "What result did you get?" "Ten answers."
Answer the following questions:
1: How old is Jane Scott?
2: What does she like to do?
3: Where does she do this?
4: What else does she do there
5: Is she any good at it?
6: Does she really pursue it?
7: What does she do about it?
8: Does anybody react to that?
9: Does he try to help her?
10: How?
11: What does Jane believe?
12: What does her Aunt say about that?
13: What advice does she give her?
14: What will this accomplish?
15: What did Jane do?
16: How?
17: Did it help?
18: How?
19: How did her aunt react?
20: Why did Jane think she wasn't good at math?
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CHAPTER XXVI
NEWS OF RUTH
"I guess they are pretty sure there is oil on that land," chuckled Andy, as the whole party got aboard the automobile and started back for town.
"I hope they sink about a hundred thousand dollars in that ground and get nothing for their trouble," added his twin.
"Gee, Dad, you certainly did soak Davenport a couple!" cried Jack admiringly.
"I did it on the spur of the moment, Son. I couldn't help it," declared Dick Rover. "It was too great an insult to pass unnoticed."
"And to think he didn't have the nerve to fight back!" added Fred. "I didn't imagine he was such a coward."
"Well, I was surprised at that myself," answered his uncle, with something of a smile. "But now listen to me, boys," he added seriously. "Don't think because I flew into Davenport that that is the right thing to do under all circumstances. He simply got me going before I knew it. Ordinarily fighting doesn't pay, and I want you to know it."
"But, Uncle Dick, that wasn't a fight--that was only a good spanking," said Andy, and at this all the others had to snicker.
"I reckon Davenport knew he was in the wrong when he made that dirty remark," came from Nick Ogilvie. "Why, in these parts many a man would have shot him down for those words. I don't wonder your father flew into him. He should have been licked until he was a fit subject for the hospital."
Answer the following questions:
1: are there twins?
2: who didn't fight back?
3: What is their uncle's name
4: where were they headed?
5: how would they get there?
6: What is one of the son's names?
7: were all the boys his sons?
8: Who called Davenport a coward?
9: did Dick plan to fight?
10: Who was his nephew?
11: who else was there?
12: who was Nick?
13: did Nick agree with Dick?
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Bobby's grandmother was studying at a school in New York City. She lived at the school year round. So Bobby's mother put him on a bus to the city and his grandmother picked him up at the Port Authority bus stop. They took the train back to the school. They put Bobby's backpack on a rack in the guest room. Then Bobby and his grandmother went out for a walk. They stopped at a corner shop for pizza and sodas. Then they walked to the Empire State Building. At the top of the Empire State Building they looked out over the city. They counted all the bridges and looked at all the tall buildings. Bobby bought three postcards and a little snow globe in the shop. Then they took the elevator back to the ground floor. Next they took a yellow cab to Central Park. They rode the carousel and went to the zoo. Bobby's favorite animals were the monkeys. He did not like the snakes at all. After they had ice cream cones, Bobby and his grandmother took the train back to her school. They had salads for supper. Then they read a story together. Bobby's grandmother made up her sofa bed for Bobby as they made plans for the next day. Bobby wanted to know if they could go to a baseball game. His grandmother said she would get tickets.
Answer the following questions:
1: Why was Bobby's grandmother in NY?
2: How did Bobby get to NYC?
3: Who helped him get on the bus?
4: Who met him at the bus station in New York?
5: What did they do after the put Bobby's bag in the guest room?
6: Did they get anything to eat?
7: What did they eat that day?
8: How many postcards did Bobby purchase?
9: Is that all that he bought?
10: What else did he get?
11: What color was the taxt that Bobby and his grandmother took to the park?
12: What did they do after they had ice cream?
13: Did they eat anything else that day?
14: What did they have?
15: What did Bobby want to do the next day?
16: Where was Bobby going to sleep?
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CHAPTER VII
THE SIN OF VROUW BOTMAR
When the meat was cleared away I bade Suzanne go to bed, which she did most unwillingly, for knowing the errand of these men she wished to hear our talk. As soon as she was gone I took a seat so that the light of the candles left my face in shadow and fell full on those of the three men--a wise thing to do if one is wicked enough to intend to tell lies about any matter--and said:
"Now, here I am at your service; be pleased to set out the business that you have in hand."
Then they began, the lawyer, speaking through the interpreter, asking, "Are you the Vrouw Botmar?"
"That is my name."
"Where is your husband, Jan Botmar?"
"Somewhere on the veldt; I do not know where."
"Will he be back to-morrow?"
"No."
"When will he be back?"
"Perhaps in two months, perhaps in three, I cannot tell."
At this they consulted together, and then went on:
"Have you living with you a young Englishman named Ralph Mackenzie?"
"One named Ralph Kenzie lives with us."
"Where is he?"
"With my husband on the veldt. I do not know where."
"Can you find him?"
"No, the veldt is very wide. If you wish to see him you must wait till he comes back."
"When will that be?"
"I am not his nurse and cannot tell; perhaps in three months, perhaps six."
Now again they consulted, and once more went on:
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was sitting in the light?
2: Who were they speaking to?
3: What did the men want to know?
4: Were they policeman?
5: Who spoke for him?
6: Did Vrouw intend to tell the truth?
7: Where did she say he was?
8: And returning when?
9: Who had she sent away earlier?
10: Where to?
11: Did she want to go?
12: Who else lives in the home?
13: Had the men asked about him?
14: Did they use the same surname?
15: Where did she claim he was?
16: With Jan?
17: Did they go to find him?
18: Why was it not possible?
19: Is she his nurse?
20: So what must the men do to see him?
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(CNN) -- Fang Lizhi, a famed Chinese democracy activist, has died in the United States, where he fled in exile more than 20 years ago, fellow activists said.
He was 76.
Fang died Friday in Tucson, Arizona, according to Wang Dan, a prominent student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protests.
"My most, most respected teacher Fang Lizhi has died," Wang wrote on Facebook. "I am immensely sad. I hope that the Chinese people will forever remember him, that in our history there was a thinker named Fang (Lizhi) who inspired a 1989 generation and awakened the people to aspire to human rights and democracy."
He added, "Sooner or later, there will be a day when China will be proud of Fang Lizhi."
Fang, an accomplished astrophysicist, served as vice president of the elite University of Science and Technology at Hefei, Anhui province. He was dismissed from his job and expelled from the Communist Party in 1987, blamed for sympathizing with student protesters.
He was one of the three noted intellectuals who were publicly criticized during the "anti-bourgeois liberalization" campaign at that time, though Fang continued to speak out for democracy.
In early 1989, he wrote an open letter to Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping, calling for the release of Chinese political prisoners.
After the bloody crackdown during the Tiananmen protests on June 4, 1989, Fang and his wife Li Shuxian sought refuge inside the U.S. embassy in Beijing.
A year later, they were allowed to leave China for Britain and were soon after granted political refuge in the United States.
Answer the following questions:
1: What kind of scientist was Fang?
2: Where did he work?
3: Where was that located?
4: what was his title?
5: Does he still have that job?
6: Why did he leave?
7: Did he quit
8: Is he still alive?
9: How old was he?
10: Where did his death occur?
11: Was he living there?
12: For how long?
13: How did he come to the U.S.?
14: How many countries did he live in?
15: Who is Wang Dan?
16: What is Fang Lizhi to him?
17: How does he feel about the death?
18: How does he think China should feel about Fang?
19: Who did Fang ask to set prisoners free?
20: When?
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN.
FRIENDS AND FOES--PLOTS AND COUNTERPLOTS--THE RANCH IN DANGER.
In a few minutes the sound of heavy feet and gruff voices was heard in the outside passage, and next moment ten men filed into the room and saluted their chief heartily.
Charlie felt an almost irresistible tendency to open his eyes, but knew that the risk was too great, and contented himself with his ears. These told him pretty eloquently what was going on, for suddenly, the noise of voices and clattering of footsteps ceased, a dead silence ensued, and Charlie knew that the whole band were gazing at him with wide open eyes and, probably, open mouths. Their attention had been directed to the stranger by the chief. The silence was only momentary, however.
"Now, don't begin to whisper, pards," said Buck Tom, in a slightly sarcastic tone. "When will ye learn that there is nothing so likely to waken a sleeper as whisperin'? Be natural--be natural, and tell me, as softly as ye can in your natural tones, what has brought you back so soon. Come, Jake, you have got the quietest voice. The poor man is pretty well knocked up and needs rest. I brought him here."
"Has he got much?" the sentence was completed by Jake significantly slapping his pocket.
"A goodish lot. But come, sit down and out wi' the news. Something must be wrong."
"Wall, I guess that somethin' _is_ wrong. Everything's wrong, as far as I can see. The Redskins are up, an' the troops are out, an' so it seemed o' no use our goin' to bust up the ranch of Roarin' Bull, seein' that the red devils are likely to be there before us. So we came back here, an' I'm glad you've got suthin' in the pot, for we're about as empty as kettledrums."
Answer the following questions:
1: What was heard in the corridor?
2: How many entered the room?
3: What did they do when they went in?
4: Who wanted to watch what was happening?
5: Did he?
6: Why not?
7: What did he do instead?
8: Could he tell what was going on from listening?
9: What was he sure was happening?
10: Who was being sarcastic?
11: What did he warn the guys against doing?
12: Why didn't he think they should whisper?
13: Which gentleman was the softest spoken?
14: What were the group trying to do to Charlie?
15: Who was likely to have made it to the ranch before the group?
16: What was the name of the ranch?
17: Where the guys hungry when they got back?
18: What was the phrase used to convey that?
19: Which group was up?
20: And which was out?
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CHAPTER III.
BUILDING THE MOLE.
Caleb sat down upon the step of the door, eating a piece of bread, while Dwight and David returned to their work of building the mole. They got the wheelbarrow, and loaded it with stones.
Caleb sat a few minutes more at the door, and then he went into the house, and got his little rocking chair, and brought it out under the elm, and sat down there, looking towards the boys, who were at work near the water. At last, David spied him sitting there, and said,
"There is Caleb, sitting under the great tree."
Dwight looked around, and then, throwing down the stone that he had in his hands, he said,
"I mean to go and get him to come here."
So he ran towards him, and said,
"Come, Caleb, come down here, and help us make our mole."
"No," said Caleb, shaking his head, and, turning away a little; "I don't want to go."
"O, do come, Caleb," said Dwight; "I won't trouble you any more."
"No," said Caleb: "I am tired, and I had rather stay here in my little chair."
"But I will carry your chair down to the brook; and there is a beautiful place there to sit and see us tumble in the stones."
So Caleb got up, and Dwight took his chair, and they walked together down to the shore of the brook. Dwight found a little spot so smooth and level, that the rocking-chair would stand very even upon it, though it would not rock very well, for the ground was not hard, like a floor. Caleb rested his elbow upon the arm of his chair, and his pale cheek in his little slender hand, and watched the stones, as, one after another, they fell into the brook.
Answer the following questions:
1: What was Caleb eating?
2: where?
3: Who else was there?
4: what were they doing?
5: what did they use?
6: what did they put in it?
7: Why did Caleb go inside?
8: Did he sit in it?
9: where?
10: doing what?
11: who was he watching?
12: Did one of them see him?
13: who?
14: what did he do when he saw him?
15: Did he want Caleb to help?
16: Did Caleb want to?
17: why?
18: What did Dwight offer?
19: where?
20: Did Caleb agree?
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CHAPTER NINETEEN.
A NIGHT JOURNEY.
"And he must post, without delay, Along the bridge and through the dale. And by the church and o'er the down." _Wordsworth_.
John Hewlett had finished his day's work, and come home in the dusk of an October evening. He found the house hung all over with the family linen, taken in to shelter from a shower; but not before it had become damp enough to need to be put by the fire before it could be ironed or folded. His mother was moaning over it, and there was no place to sit down. He did not wonder that Jem had taken his hunch of bread and gone away with it, nor that his father was not at home; but he took off his boots at the back door, as his aunt never liked his coming into her room in them--though they were nothing to what he would have worn had he worked in the fields--and then climbed up the stairs.
Judith was sitting up in bed, with her teapot, tea-cup, and a piece of stale loaf, laid out on a tray before her; and little Judy beside her, drinking out of a cracked mug. Judith's eyes had a strange look of fright in them, but there was an air of relief when she saw Johnnie.
"Well, aunt, is that all you have got for tea?"
"Poor mother has been hindered; but never mind that," returned Judith, in a quick, agitated tone. "Judy, my dear, drink up your tea and run down to help mother, there's a dear."
Answer the following questions:
1: How did John find the house?
2: what had to happen to the linens?
3: Why?
4: What time of day was it?
5: where was he coming from?
6: in what month?
7: who was moaning?
8: could she sit?
9: Where was Judith?
10: with what?
11: was the dad home?
12: Who may have stolen his bread?
13: Where did he take off his shoe?
14: Why?
15: What was his aunts name?
16: Who was injured and stalled?
17: Who should drink fast?
18: How did Judith's eyes look?
19: Was she ever relaxed?
20: When?
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Once upon a time there was a little boy who had a rock. The rock was his favorite toy. He would throw his rock at trees, or roll his rock down hills. Sometimes he would stand at the river shore, dropping his rock in the water. He thought it was great fun to listen to the rock splash.
One day, the little boy met a brown cow. "Moo!" said the cow.
"Hello," said the boy. "Would you like to see my rock?"
The boy held out his rock for the cow to see. The cow looked at it. Then it picked it up in its mouth.
"Moo," said the cow.
"Hey," the boy said. "Give me back my rock!"
The boy tried to pull open the cow's mouth. Then he tried sticking his fingers in the cow's nose, so it would open its mouth to breathe. Then he tried tickling the cow, but it wouldn't open its mouth.
"Moo," it said. Then it swallowed the rock, and the little boy went home and cried.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who did the little boy meet?
2: What did it say?
3: What did the young lad reply?
4: What did the lad show him?
5: What did he do next
6: What did the animal do when he saw it?
7: Was the lad happy?
8: What did the lad say next?
9: What did the lad do to the animal to get his rock?
10: What did he do next to the animals nostrils
11: Why?
12: Then what did he try?
13: Did that work?
14: What did it say then?
15: What happened to the boy's possession?
16: Who swallowed it?
17: Where did the lad go next?
18: What did he do when he got there?
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Norfolk is an independent city located in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. At the 2010 census, the population was 242,803; in 2015, the population was estimated to be 247,189 making it the second-most populous city in Virginia after neighboring Virginia Beach.
Norfolk is located at the core of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, named for the large natural harbor of the same name located at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. It is one of nine cities and seven counties that constitute the Hampton Roads metro area, officially known as the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA. The city is bordered to the west by the Elizabeth River and to the north by the Chesapeake Bay. It also shares land borders with the independent cities of Chesapeake to its south and Virginia Beach to its east. Norfolk is one of the oldest cities in Hampton Roads, and is considered to be the historic, urban, financial, and cultural center of the region.
The city has a long history as a strategic military and transportation point. The largest Navy base in the world, Naval Station Norfolk, is located in Norfolk along with one of NATO's two Strategic Command headquarters. The city also has the corporate headquarters of Norfolk Southern Railway, one of North America's principal Class I railroads, and Maersk Line, Limited, which manages the world's largest fleet of US-flag vessels. As the city is bordered by multiple bodies of water, Norfolk has many miles of riverfront and bayfront property, including beaches on the Chesapeake Bay. It is linked to its neighbors by an extensive network of Interstate highways, bridges, tunnels, and three bridge-tunnel complexes, which are the only bridge-tunnels in the United States.
Answer the following questions:
1: Does Norfolk have a military presence?
2: Army or navy?
3: What is the base called?
4: How many strategic command headquarters does NATO have?
5: Is one of them in Norfolk?
6: Which class I railroad is headquartered there?
7: What other transportation company is stationed there?
8: Do they control the second largest fleet of US vessels?
9: Is Norfolk land locked?
10: Where are its beaches located?
11: How many bridge tunnels are located there?
12: What other U.S. city has those?
13: Is Norfolk in West Virginia?
14: Did the population increase or decrease between 2010 and 2015?
15: Is it the biggest city in Virginia?
16: What is?
17: Are they close to each other?
18: What bay is it on?
19: What river lies to its west?
20: Is it a historic city?
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- A motorist pleaded not guilty Tuesday to one count of murder and multiple other charges, three days after he allegedly drove his car into pedestrians at the famed Venice Beach Boardwalk in California, killing an Italian honeymooner.
Nathan Louis Campbell, 38, is charged with murder, 16 counts of assault with a deadly weapon and 17 counts of hit-and-run, said Deputy District Attorney Gary Hearnsberger.
The charges include the special allegation of use of a deadly weapon, a car. Campbell, who was being held on $1.48 million bail, could face a life sentence if convicted.
Campbell, wearing a blue jail jumpsuit at his arraignment, was handcuffed at the waist and wrists.
When asked whether he wanted to waive his right to a speedy trial, Campbell answered, "Yes, sir" during the brief appearance.
Police: Driver 'bent on doing evil'
His court-appointed attorney, Philip Dube, said his client was "very distraught" over the incident, but did not deliberately strike anyone.
"I don't believe he intentionally tried to hit anybody, based on my cursory review of the case and my discussions with the D.A.," said Dube.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Keith L. Schwartz set the next hearing for September 4. He and attorneys will discuss scheduling a preliminary hearing.
Campbell is accused of driving his 2008 Dodge Avenger onto the boardwalk, killing 32-year-old Alice Gruppioni of Italy. She suffered blunt trauma to the head and neck, according to Los Angeles County coroner spokesman Ed Winter.
Eight women and eight men were hurt Saturday, authorities said.
Answer the following questions:
1: what was campbell wearing at his arraingment?
2: what is his full name?
3: how old is he?
4: what is he charged with?
5: who's death did he cause?
6: why was she in town?
7: what is Campbells bond?
8: what could his punishment be?
9: who is his lawyer?
10: does he think he did this on purpose?
11: what was campbell driving?
12: how many people did he hurt?
13: where they all women?
14: did Campbell ask for a quick trial?
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San Francisco (CNN) -- Barry Bonds' former trainer was freed Friday from the prison where he's been held since he refused to testify in the baseball legend's perjury trial two weeks ago.
With the jury now deliberating the perjury and obstruction of justice case against Bonds, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered Gary Anderson to be released.
Illston found Anderson in contempt of court on the first day of trial testimony when his lawyer informed her that he would not take the stand to answer questions about Bonds' steroid use.
It was the third time Anderson chose jail time over testimony. He was sent to prison for several weeks twice before when he refused to appear before a federal grand jury investigating Bonds.
The absence of the trainer's testimony hampered the government's case against Bonds, who is charged with lying under oath when he testified about his steroids use in 2003 before the grand jury that was investigating an alleged sports doping scandal involving Anderson of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative.
Bonds, 46, allegedly lied about knowingly taking performance-enhancing drugs and about being injected by anyone but his doctors.
The jury of eight women and four men are deciding Bonds' fate in a San Francisco federal courthouse less than two miles from the ballpark where Bonds broke Hank Aaron's major league home run record in August 2007.
The three perjury counts and one count of obstruction of justice could each carry a 10-year prison sentence upon conviction. A fourth perjury charge was dropped by prosecutors Wednesday.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was locked up?
2: Who was released from prison?
3: And who was ordered to be released?
4: What was bonds charged with?
5: What did Illston find Anderson guilty of on day one?
6: How many times had Anderson been guilty of this?
7: Who had he refused to appear before?
8: What was Ilslton's profession?
9: How old was Bonds?
10: How many were in the jury?
11: How many were women?
12: Where was this?
13: Less than 2 miles from where?
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CHAPTER III
LIGHTFOOT TELLS HOW HIS ANTLERS GREW
It is hard to believe what seems impossible. And yet what seems impossible to you may be a very commonplace matter to some one else. So it does not do to say that a thing cannot be possible just because you cannot understand how it can be. Peter Rabbit wanted to believe what Lightfoot the Deer had just told him, but somehow he couldn't. If he had seen those antlers growing, it would have been another matter. But he hadn't seen Lightfoot since the very last of winter, and then Lightfoot had worn just such handsome antlers as he now had. So Peter really couldn't be blamed for not being able to believe that those old ones had been lost and in their place new ones had grown in just the few months of spring and summer.
But Peter didn't blame Lightfoot in the least, because he had told Peter that he didn't like to tell things to people who wouldn't believe what he told them when Peter had asked him about the rags hanging to his antlers. "I'm trying to believe it," he said, quite humbly.
"It's all true," broke in another voice.
Peter jumped and turned to find his big cousin, Jumper the Hare. Unseen and unheard, he had stolen up and had overheard what Peter and Lightfoot had said.
"How do you know it is true?" snapped Peter a little crossly, for Jumper had startled him.
"Because I saw Lightfoot's old antlers after they had fallen off, and I often saw Lightfoot while his new ones were growing," retorted Jumper.
Answer the following questions:
1: What had been hanging from Lightfoot's antlers?
2: What kind of animal was Peter?
3: What kind of animal was Jumper?
4: Were they related?
5: How?
6: What kind of animal was Lightfoot?
7: When did Peter last see him?
8: Did Lightfoot say he lost something?
9: What?
10: Did he say he got new ones?
11: Was Peter able to believe Lightfoot's story?
12: Who was able to believe it?
13: What's one of the reasons that Jumper does?
14: What's another reason ?
15: Was Jumper big?
16: Had he been eavesdropping?
17: Why was Peter snappish with him?
18: Did Peter want to believe Lightfoot?
19: Did Lightfoot like to tell everybody things they might not believe?
20: What did Peter say to Lightfoot about it?
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"Tom? Are you in bed yet?" called Mrs White. There was no answer. Mrs White put down her book and went to her 14-year-old son's room. Tom was sitting in front of a bright computer screen on which a colourful dragon jumped and shouted. "Oh, Tom! You're still playing on that computer. You must stop now. It's half past eleven. If you don't go to bed soon, you'll be very tired tomorrow," said Mrs White. "But I've nearly beaten the dragon," said Tom. Mrs White could see the excitement on her son's face. She sat down beside him. "You are always playing on that computer. You spend more time with this machine than with your family," she said with a smile. "What's special about it? Show me what it can do!" "I think this is a great computer, Mum!" he said happily. "The hardware is good. There's so much memory and it has some wonderful software programs. This game, 'Dragon Player', is my favourite, but I sometimes borrow games from Daniel and other friends. I don't have to worry about any infected disks because I have a virus detector which can go over any disk and check it for viruses. Let me show you!" Tom began tapping. The screen changed in answer to his orders. "Oh, Tom," laughed Mrs White. "I'm sure it's a wonderful computer, but I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about."
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the name of Mrs. White's son?
2: how old is he?
3: was he using the computer?
4: was he close to winning?
5: what time was it?
6: who does Tom borrow games from?
7: was tom in bed?
8: what did Mrs White put down?
9: what was on his screen?
10: was it dull or colourful?
11: where did Mrs. White sit?
12: did Tom think the hardware was good?
13: which game was his favourite?
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- An earthquake in Pakistan, powerful enough to prompt the appearance of a small island off the coast, has killed more than 200 people, Pakistani officials said.
The 7.7-magnitude quake struck in a remote area of southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, but it had severe consequences.
At least 208 people were killed in the district of Awaran and the city of Turbut in Balochistan province, Asad Gilani, the provincial home secretary, said Wednesday.
In addition to the fatalities, around 350 people have been injured, he said, and more people are still trapped in rubble.
The quake was strong enough to cause a mass 20 to 30 feet high to emerge from the Arabian Sea like a small mountain island off the coast of Gwadar, local police official Mozzam Jah said. A large number of people gathered to view the newly formed island, he said.
Large quakes can cause significant deformation to the earth's crust, particularly visible along coastlines.
The island is about 100 feet in diameter and about one mile off the coast, GEO TV reported.
Zahid Rafi, principal seismologist for the National Seismic Monitoring Center, confirmed the island had formed. He said it was "not surprising," considering the magnitude of the earthquake.
But John Bellini, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, said that generally it would be unlikely for such a large island to emerge from a quake like Tuesday's.
Many things, such as the tide, could come into play regarding the rise of the island, he said.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many died?
2: Why?
3: Where?
4: Was it a shock?
5: How many hurt?
6: What did it make?
7: Where?
8: Was it looked at?
9: Who agreed that it happened?
10: Who is he?
11: How big was it?
12: How big was the shake?
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A 13-year-old boy traveled to Washington, D.C. to raise money for homeless kids. Zach Bonner was pretty tired. Instead of going to camp last summer, Zach decided to walk 668 miles from Atlanta to Washington, D.C. He hoped more people would help homeless kids. His journey to help others began six years ago. Zach walked from his home in Tampa to Tallahassee. Then, in 2008, Zach Bonner went on a 270-mile walk from Tallahassee to Atlanta. In 2010, he did it again, from Tampa to Los Angeles. Last summer, Zach traveled 12 miles every day on foot. Along the way, he collected more than 1000 letters about homeless children. He hoped to give the letters to President Obama. Zach says he wants his walk to make a difference. More than 1 million children in the U.S. have nowhere to live. During his journey, Zach spent 24 hours with some homeless children so he could learn the difficulties they face. When Zach walked the last mile of his long journey, more than 500 supporters, including 300 homeless kids, joined Zach. They went with him down the National Mall. "It was a long walk," Zach says, "but it was meaningful." Although the journey is difficult and tiring, Zach won't give up. "When homeless kids get tired of being homeless, they don't get to stop. So why should I stop when I get tired of walking?"
Answer the following questions:
1: How many children in the U.S. are homeless?
2: What is the boy's name?
3: How old is he?
4: Who was he raising funds for?
5: Where is he from?
6: How many miles did he walk in 2008?
7: What city did he start that walk in?
8: What city was the final destination on that walk?
9: How many letters did he collect?
10: About what?
11: To whom did he want to give the letters?
12: Which one?
13: How many hours did Zach spend with homeless kids?
14: How many miles a day did he travel per day last summer?
15: On foot?
16: How many supporters joined him on the final mile of his trip?
17: How many homeless kids joined him?
18: Where did they go together?
19: Did Zach give up summer camp for he could do one of his walks?
20: How many years ago did he start doing these walks?
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ST. GEORGE, Utah (CNN) -- A young man whose arranged marriage to a young cousin led to the conviction of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was charged Wednesday with her rape.
Prosecutors filed the rape charge against Allen Steed, 26, a day after a jury found Jeffs guilty of two rape-accomplice counts in connection with Steed's ill-fated 2001 marriage to Elissa Wall.
Jurors found that Jeffs used his authority as leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or FLDS, to push the girl into a marriage she did not want.
Steed was 19 and his bride, who also was his first cousin, was 14 when Jeffs "sealed" them in spiritual marriage at a motel in Caliente, Nevada, where many FLDS weddings were performed. Three other couples also were married that day in separate ceremonies, according to testimony.
Steed is accused of having sex with the girl against her will several weeks into the marriage.
Steed testified for the defense at Jeffs' trial. He said his new wife was affectionate to him in private, but cold in public. He denied that he or Jeffs had forced sex on her.
Wall agreed to be identified publicly as the trial ended in hopes of encouraging other women who feel trapped by polygamy to come forward. Watch Wall urge other girls to be brave »
She testified that she told Steed she was not ready and that her first sexual encounter made her feel dirty, used and trapped.
Her pleas to church leaders to end the marriage were ignored, and Jeffs told her to submit "mind, body and soul" to her new husband, Wall told the jury.
Answer the following questions:
1: who is a sect leader?
2: what was he charged with?
3: on what day?
4: how old is Allen Steed?
5: who was his bride?
6: were they related?
7: how so?
8: Did she tell steed she was ready?
9: Did Wall agree to be publically identified?
10: Who was leader of FLDS
11: did he use his authority to force her into marriage?
12: where were FLDS weddings performed?
13: how many other couples were married that day
14: was the wife nice in private?
15: in public?
16: what year were they married?
17: was it a good marriage?
18: how old was she when she was sealed to him in marriage?
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(CNN) -- Does money make you happy? Does being rich contribute to your spiritual life and its possibilities?
Is the gap between the rich and poor a religious problem as well as a social problem in desperate need of solutions?
Jesus, Pope Francis, and brain scientists have asked these questions, and the answers are clear if unnerving. Wealth and power are dangerous for your mental health, your spiritual condition, and for society in general -- especially when they contribute to the neglect of the poor. New research explains how this works (more on this in a minute).
Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy. Jesus knew this: "You will always have the poor among you," he said (Matthew 26:11). He also said, "God blesses you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours." (Luke 6:20). Only a few verses before this moment in Luke, he cries (echoing the Old Testament): "The spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring the good news to the poor." (Luke 4:18).
Jesus also noted, famously and controversially, that it is easier "for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 19:23-24).
Let's just hope that we've got some very skinny camels.
Jesus discouraged the accumulation of wealth, worried about its effects on those who had it, and took special pleasure in helping the poor, dedicating his efforts to them. He must have shaken his head at the large gaps between rich and poor throughout ancient Palestine in the first century.
Answer the following questions:
1: Is getting rid of poverty a reality?
2: Who knew this?
3: What did he say?
4: What Bible verse is that from?
5: What else did he say?
6: What is that from?
7: Did he encourage accumulating wealth?
8: What did he worry about?
9: Who did he like to help?
10: What have many said about wealth and power?
11: What is one of the questions being asked?
12: What is another one?
13: What does Jesus say it's easier for?
14: What part of the bible says that?
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(CNN)A dark intersection. A church van full of parishioners. And tragedy.
That's about all police in Glades County, Florida, had to work with early Monday, hours after a van with 18 people inside ran a stop sign, crossed a four-lane highway and plunged into a shallow water-filled ditch. Eight people died. Ten others, including a 4-year-old child, were injured, according to police.
Investigators don't know why it happened, Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Greg Bueno told CNN affiliate WPBF. The driver died, and police haven't been able to interview passengers yet.
"Our hearts go out to the families of the victims," Bueno said. "It breaks your heart to see something like this happen."
Some relatives of the crash victims, all of whom were from the Independent Haitian Assembly of God in Fort Pierce, gathered at the rural intersection Monday morning. Others went to the church.
"We've lost a lot of family members, church family," Phillipe Dorce, who said he lost his father, told WPBF. "All we can do is pray (to) God to help us out. Pray for us. It's very sad for us."
Linda Dolce told the news site TCPalm.com that her grandmother died in the crash. She'd arrived from Haiti six years ago.
"She loved singing and helping people," TCPalm.com quoted her as saying. "She was exciting; she was the best lady to us."
Laura Lochard told the site that her uncle died in the crash, leaving behind four children, the youngest of which is 16, whom he brought to the United States from Haiti. He was like a father to her, too, she said.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where did this story take place?
2: What happened?
3: Did anyone die?
4: How many were injured?
5: What were all the passengers members of?
6: What did the family do?
7: What about the other family members?
8: What was the only thing they can do?
9: What police department worked the accident
10: Who was the LT?
11: What was the news site that interviewed some people?
12: What country did some of the people come from?
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CHAPTER XX
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND
Tuesday afternoon Miss Lord's big touring car stood at the door of Hillcrest Lodge, for Agatha had invited the Conant party to ride with her to Millbank. Irene was tucked into the back seat in a comfortable position and beside her sat Mrs. Conant, who was going to make a few purchases at the village store. Mary Louise rode on the front seat with Agatha, who loved to drive her car and understood it perfectly.
When they drove away there was no one left in the house but Sarah Judd, the servant girl, who was washing the lunch dishes. Bub was in the shed- like garage, however, washing and polishing Will Morrison's old car, on which the paint was so cracked and faded that the boy's attempt to improve its appearance was a desperate one.
Sarah, through the kitchen window, watched Bub for a time rather sharply. Then she went out on the bluff and looked down in the valley. Miss Lord's big car was just passing the Huddle on its way up the valley.
Sarah turned and reentered the house. Her meek and diffident expression of countenance had quite disappeared. Her face now wore a look of stern determination and the blue eyes deepened and grew shrewd.
She walked straight to the den and without hesitation approached the farther wall and took from its pegs Will Morrison's fine hunting rifle. In the stock was a hollow chamber for cartridges, for the rifle was of the type known as a "repeater." Sliding back the steel plate that hid this cavity, Sarah drew from it a folded paper of a yellow tint and calmly spread it on the table before her. Then she laid down the rifle, placed a chair at the table and with absorbed attention read the letter from beginning to end--the letter that Irene had found in the book.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was the only person left in the house?
2: And who was she?
3: And what was she doing?
4: Where was Miss Lord's vehicle?
5: Of what location?
6: Did Agatha enjoy driving?
7: Did she have her own vehicle?
8: Where was Bub?
9: Doing what?
10: Whose car was it?
11: Was Bub having much luck improving the appearance of the car?
12: What had Miss Lord's vehicle just gone by?
13: Which leads to where?
14: What color eyes did Sarah have?
15: What was in the stock of the gun?
16: For holding what?
17: What kind of gun was it?
18: Was it called another name?
19: What was the color of the tint of the paper?
20: Who found the letter in the book?
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CHAPTER XVI
SOMETHING ABOUT A CANE
But if Koswell and Larkspur were guilty, they kept very quiet about it, and the Rover boys were unable to prove anything against them. The bill for the cut-up tire came to Dick, and he paid it.
The college talk was now largely about football, and one day a notice was posted that all candidates for admission on the big eleven should register at the gymnasium.
"I think I'll put my name down," said Tom.
"And I'll do the same," returned Dick, "but I doubt if well get much of a show, since they know nothing of our playing qualities here."
There were about thirty candidates, including thirteen who had played on the big team before. But two of these candidates were behind in then studies, and had to be dropped, by order of the faculty.
"That leaves a full eleven anyway of old players," said Sam. "Not much hope for you," he added to his brothers.
"They'll do considerable shifting; every college team does," said Dick; and he was right. After a good deal of scrub work and a general sizing up of the different candidates, four of the old players were dropped, while another went to the substitutes' bench.
It was now a question between nine of the new candidates, and after another tryout Dick was put in as a guard, he having shown an exceptional fitness for filling that position. Tom got on the substitutes' bench, which was something, if not much. Then practice began in earnest, for the college was to play a game against Roxley, another college, on a Saturday, ten days later.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many candidates were there?
2: How many had prior experience?
3: How many were dropped?
4: Why?
5: Where were they registering at?
6: Did Dick think they had much of a shot?
7: Why not?
8: What did correctly say all teams do?
9: How many of the old players were let go?
10: Did one become a substitute?
11: How many new potential players did it come down to?
12: Did Tom get picked?
13: What did he end up doing on the team?
14: Did Dick get picked, too?
15: What position did he get?
16: Did he seem like an excellent fit for that position?
17: Who paid for a torn up tire?
18: Who might have been guilty, but they weren't saying anything about it?
19: Who failed at proving them guilty of anything?
20: Who was the first football game going to be against?
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CHAPTER II.
EGYPT AND GREECE.
B.C. 484
Xerxes assumes the crown.--His message to Artobazanes.--Question of the succession again debated.--Advice of Atossa.--Decision of Artabanus.--Unfinished wars of Darius.--Egypt and Greece.--Character of the Egyptians.--Character of the Greeks.--Architecture.--Monuments of Greece.--Egyptian architecture.--Form of Egypt.--Delta of the Nile.--Fertility of Egypt.--No rain in Egypt.--Rising of the Nile.--Preparations for the inundation.--Gradual rise of the water.--Appearance of the country during an inundation.--The three theories.--Objections to the first.--Second and third theories.--Reasons against them.--Ideas of the common people in regard to the inundation.--Story of King Pheron.--His punishment.--Sequel of the story of King Pheron.--Nilometers.--Use of Nilometers.--Enormous structures of Egypt.--Comparative antiquity of various objects.--Great age of the Pyramids.--Egypt a mark for the conqueror.--Its relation to Persia.--Xerxes resolves to subdue Egypt first.--The Jews.--The Egyptians subdued.--Return to Susa.
The arrangements which Darius had made to fix and determine the succession, before his death, did not entirely prevent the question from arising again when his death occurred. Xerxes was on the spot at the time, and at once assumed the royal functions. His brother was absent. Xerxes sent a messenger to Artobazanes[C] informing him of their father's death, and of his intention of assuming the crown. He said, however, that if he did so, he should give his brother the second rank, making him, in all respects, next to himself in office and honor. He sent, moreover, a great many splendid presents to Artobazanes, to evince the friendly regard which he felt for him, and to propitiate his favor.
[Footnote C: Plutarch, who gives an account of these occurrences, varies the orthography of the name. We, however, retain the name as given by Herodotus.]
Answer the following questions:
1: who is Xerces brother?
2: and his dad?
3: what did he inform his brother?
4: and?
5: did he send him anything?
6: why?
7: had Darius decided who would take over before he died?
8: where was Xerxes when he died?
9: did he take responsibility right away?
10: was his brother there?
11: had Xerxes already decide to take the throne according to the message?
12: what would he do with his brother if he decided?
13: what would this mean?
14: were questions asked after Darius died?
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Encyclopedia Americana is one of the largest general encyclopedias in the English language. Following the acquisition of Grolier in 2000, the encyclopedia has been produced by Scholastic.
The encyclopedia has more than 45,000 articles, most of them more than 500 words and many running to considerable length (the "United States" article is over 300,000 words). The work's coverage of American and Canadian geography and history has been a traditional strength. Written by 6,500 contributors, the "Encyclopedia Americana" includes over 9,000 bibliographies, 150,000 cross-references, 1,000+ tables, 1,200 maps, and almost 4,500 black-and-white line art and color images. It also has 680 factboxes. Most articles are signed by their contributors.
Long available as a 30-volume print set, the "Encyclopedia Americana" is now marketed as an online encyclopedia requiring a subscription. In March 2008, Scholastic said that print sales remained good but that the company was still deciding on the future of the print edition. The company did not produce an edition in 2007, a change from its previous approach of releasing a revised print edition each year. The most recent print edition of the "Encyclopedia Americana" was published in 2006.
The online version of the "Encyclopedia Americana", first introduced in 1997, continues to be updated and sold. This work, like the print set from which it is derived, is designed for high school and first-year college students along with public library users. It is available to libraries as one of the options in the Grolier Online reference service, which also includes the "Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia", intended for middle and high school students, and "The New Book of Knowledge", an encyclopedia for elementary and middle school students. Grolier Online is not available to individual subscribers.
Answer the following questions:
1: When was the online version of the encyclopedia put out?
2: Is it still updated?
3: What kind of students is it designed for?
4: And who else?
5: What is made for middle and high school kids?
6: What is designed for elementary students?
7: Is the online service available to individuals?
8: What is the biggest encyclopedia in the English language?
9: Who has produced it after the year 2000?
10: After they acquired what?
11: How many articles are in the books?
12: How many words are most?
13: How long is the United States article?
14: Is geography a strength for the encyclopedias?
15: What else is a strong point?
16: How many bibliographies are there?
17: In what year was a print edition published?
18: How many cross-references were there?
19: How many factboxes are there?
20: How many books were in a typical print edition?
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About 400 high school students from Western Pennsylvania and the neighboring state of Ohio joined a heated discussion recently on "China: What Does the Future Hold?" "It's either going to turn out really good or really bad - who knows?" said Braveen Ragunathan, a senior from an Ohio high school. In his mind all Americans are connected to China in some way. The forum was held in Pittsburgh, once a US industrial center, now facing job-cuts because of competition brought about by globalization. The aim of the forum is to help American students learn more about the outside world. Elliott Blackwell, a junior at the Neighborhood Academy, said the forum let him know more about how China's economic development will affect America in the future. Some students, although impressed by China's economic boom, expressed uneasiness about the nation's practices and differences from the American way of doing business and politics. "China is a power coming up,so they might challenge us," Paul Amon, a junior from Oil City High School, said. "I'd hope that China can be our partner but I think that we'd clash along the way because we're too different," he added. George Riley, a teacher explained: "The view of China is usually negative and I think that's fueled by the media." However, some negative feelings are not from the media. Merri Ebel is a senior at East Allegheny High School north of Pittsburgh. Both her parents lost their jobs recently. The company they worked for said it was cheaper to produce goods in China rather than the US. "China is just this big question mark. China was just a big country with millions of people that no one really knew about because it was so far away and our class was more American history based," she said. For better or worse US teenagers are eager to know more about China, the forum shows.
Answer the following questions:
1: What were the students intensely talking about?
2: What town were they holding this talk in?
3: Were some of the kids from a different state than that?
4: How many kids were there?
5: What was the goal of this conversation?
6: Does Pittsburgh have a lot of job openings?
7: Are American teens eager to learn about China?
8: What state is Braveen from?
9: Is he a freshman?
10: Does he think we're all connected to China?
11: Did Elliott learn about China's impact on our future?
12: Does Paul think we've got too many difference with China?
13: Who was the teacher?
14: Does he think the news is fueling negativity about China?
15: What happened to Merri's parents?
16: What does she think China is?
17: Does she think China is distant from her school?
18: What did Pittsburgh used to be?
19: What one word describes the job cuts there?
20: Is Paul a senior?
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Harry is from London. But he is in China with his parents now. He is 13 years old. He is a student of Grade 7. Harry is a clever student. He works very hard. He is good at all his lessons. He says he likes Chinese best. He can speak some Chinese now. His teachers and classmates are all nice to him. Harry gets up at 6.20 on weekdays. He has his breakfast at home. Then he walks to school. His lessons begin at 7.50 every day. In the morning, they have four classes. Harry has lunch at school with his classmates. They have three classes in the afternoon. And school is over at 4.40. After school, Harry plays ball games in the playground. He goes home at about 5.30. He has supper with his parents every day. In the evening, he does his homework and watches TV. And then he goes to bed at 9.30. "I like living in China very much. The people here are friendly and the food is very nice. I like all the things here," He says to his parents.
Answer the following questions:
1: what is Harry's favorite lesson?
2: is he a good student?
3: where does he live?
4: where was he born?
5: what grade is he in?
6: does he like the kids in his class?
7: what does he usually do after classes?
8: what time does he wake up?
9: when does he get home?
10: does the family eat together?
11: when does he go to sleep?
12: how many subjects does he study before lunch?
13: and in the afternoon?
14: when is school over?
15: does he enjoy China?
16: Does he enjoy the cuisine?
17: Is there anything he doesn't like?
18: does he study every night?
19: Does he watch TV?
20: what time is his first class?
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Sam's granddad was going to take Sam and his two brothers, James and Evan on vacation. They could choose to go to the lake or the beach. If they chose the lake, they would get to go on their granddad's boat. If they chose the beach, there would be sand to dig in. All three boys began to clap and cheer for the beach! The boys left their house in their granddad's van to drive to the beach. They drove by their school on the way. The boys were glad to be out for the summer. On the road, the boys played a game. Whoever counted the most big trucks would be the winner. James counted one hundred and five trucks. This was more than Sam or Evan counted. Evan pointed out the window at a man dressed all in black riding a black motorcycle. The man had a long beard. When they got to the beach, their granddad told them to put on sunscreen so they would not get sun burned. The boys grabbed their pails and shovels and ran down on to the sand near the water. Their granddad brought a chair to sit on and a large umbrella to give him shade. He also brought some noodles for the boys to float on if they went into the water. Sam found a piece of wood washed up on the beach. He used it make a bridge over large hole that the boys had dug.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who's going on vacation?
2: What choices did they have?
3: What did they decide on?
4: How did they spend the time while going there?
5: Who won?
6: How many did he count?
7: What did the oldest one say to his grandkids?
8: How did the boys spend their time at the beach?
9: How did they feel?
10: Why?
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Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). A small Amorite-ruled state emerged in 1894 BC, which contained at this time the minor administrative town of Babylon. Babylon greatly expanded from the small provincial town that it had originally been during the Akkadian Empire (2335-2154 BC) during the reign of Hammurabi in the first half of the 18th century BC, becoming a major capital city. During the reign of Hammurabi and afterwards, Babylonia was called "Māt Akkadī" "the country of Akkad" in the Akkadian language. It was often involved in rivalry with its older fellow Akkadian-speaking state of Assyria in northern Mesopotamia, as well as Elam to the east, in Ancient Iran. Babylonia briefly became the major power in the region after Hammurabi (fl. c. 1792 – 1752 BC middle chronology, or c. 1696 – 1654 BC, short chronology) created a short-lived empire, succeeding the earlier Akkadian Empire, Third Dynasty of Ur, and Old Assyrian Empire; however, the Babylonian empire rapidly fell apart after the death of Hammurabi and reverted back to a small kingdom.
The Babylonian state, like Assyria to the north, retained the written Akkadian language for official use (the language of its native populace), despite its Northwest Semitic-speaking Amorite founders and Kassite successors, who spoke a language isolate, not being native Mesopotamians. It retained the Sumerian language for religious use (as did Assyria), but already by the time Babylon was founded, this was no longer a spoken language, having been wholly subsumed by Akkadian. The earlier Akkadian and Sumerian traditions played a major role in Babylonian and Assyrian culture, and the region would remain an important cultural center, even under its protracted periods of outside rule.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is this about?
2: Where is that?
3: When was it created?
4: What did it have in it?
5: Did it stay small?
6: When did it get bigger?
7: Who ruled during this time?
8: What did it turn into then?
9: What did they speak there?
10: What was it called in that?
11: What does that mean?
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The Union Army or Federal Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War, 1861 to 1865. It included the permanent regular army of the United States, which was augmented by massive numbers of temporary units consisting of volunteers as well as conscripts. The Union Army fought and defeated the Confederate Army during the war. At least two and a half million men served in the Union Army; almost all were volunteers. About 360,000 Union soldiers died from all causes; 280,000 were wounded and 200,000 deserted.
When the American Civil War began in April 1861, there were only 16,000 men in the U.S. Army, and of these many Southern officers resigned and joined the Confederate army. The U.S. Army consisted of ten regiments of infantry, four of artillery, two of cavalry, two of dragoons, and three of mounted infantry. The regiments were scattered widely. Of the 197 companies in the army, 179 occupied 79 isolated posts in the West, and the remaining 18 manned garrisons east of the Mississippi River, mostly along the Canada–United States border and on the Atlantic coast.
With the Southern slave states declaring secession from the Union, and with this drastic shortage of men in the army, President Abraham Lincoln called on the states to raise a force of 75,000 men for three months to put down the insurrection. Lincoln's call forced the border states to choose sides, and four seceded, making the Confederacy eleven states strong. The war proved to be longer and more extensive than anyone North or South had expected, and on July 22, 1861, Congress authorized a volunteer army of 500,000 men.
Answer the following questions:
1: Name a battle the Federal Army fought in?
2: During what years?
3: How many men were in the army at the beginning of the battle?
4: How many regiments were there?
5: Were they close to each other?
6: How many companies were in the West?
7: What were they occupying?
8: At what location was the rest of the companies?
9: How many were there?
10: What were they guarding?
11: How many men did Lincoln demand?
12: for how long?
13: For what?
14: Did anyone expect the length of the war?
15: When did Congress approve volunteer fighters?
16: Male and female?
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Geophysics is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. The term "geophysics" sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and composition; its dynamics and their surface expression in plate tectonics, the generation of magmas, volcanism and rock formation. However, modern geophysics organizations use a broader definition that includes the water cycle including snow and ice; fluid dynamics of the oceans and the atmosphere; electricity and magnetism in the ionosphere and magnetosphere and solar-terrestrial relations; and analogous problems associated with the Moon and other planets.
Although geophysics was only recognized as a separate discipline in the 19th century, its origins date back to ancient times. The first magnetic compasses were made from lodestones, while more modern magnetic compasses played an important role in the history of navigation. The first seismic instrument was built in 132 AD. Isaac Newton applied his theory of mechanics to the tides and the precession of the equinox; and instruments were developed to measure the Earth's shape, density and gravity field, as well as the components of the water cycle. In the 20th century, geophysical methods were developed for remote exploration of the solid Earth and the ocean, and geophysics played an essential role in the development of the theory of plate tectonics.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the main topic of this article?
2: When was this term recognized as a separate discipline in the sciences?
3: When was it first studied, though without a name?
4: Do modern geophysics include the water cycle as part of this science?
5: Did earlier ones?
6: What was an important part of earlier versions of the compass?
7: Do modern geophysics include the oceans as part of this science?
8: Do modern geophysics include volcanoes as part of this science?
9: What was one type of scientist that was important in the development of the theory of plate tectonic?
10: Do geophysics include magnetic fields as part of this science?
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CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN.
MISSED AND MOURNED.
"Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain." _Longfellow_.
"Be they Gobblealls not coming home?" asked Nanny Barton, as she stood at her gate, while some of her neighbours came slowly out of church, about two years later.
"My man, he did ask Shepherd Tomkins," said Betsy Seddon, "and all the answer he got was, `You don't desarve it, not you.' As if my man had gone out with that there rabble rout!"
"And I'm sure mine only went up to see what they were after, and helped to put out the fire beside."
"Ay," said Cox, behind her, "but not till the soldiers were come."
"Time they did come!" said Seddon. "Rain comes through the roof, and that there Lawyer Brent won't have nothing done to it till the captain comes home."
"Yes," added Morris, "and when I spoke to him about my windows, as got blown in, he said `cottages were no end of expense, and we hadn't treated them so as they would wish to come back nohow.'"
"Think of their bearing malice!" cried Nanny Barton.
"I don't believe as how they does," responded the other Nanny. "They have sent the coals and the blankets all the same."
"Bear malice!" said Mrs Truman, who had just walked up. "No, no. Why, Parson Harford have said over and over again, when he gave a shilling or so or a meat order, to help a poor lady that was ill, that 'twas by madam's wish."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who would do nothing about the roof?
2: What was wrong with it?
3: What was he waiting on?
4: What did he say about cottages?
5: Who did he say this to?
6: When?
7: Was it in response to issues with Morris' home?
8: Who was Nanny Barton concerned with?
9: What was her concern?
10: Where was she standing?
11: What was happening?
12: After how long?
13: What did Betsy's husband help do?
14: Who helped the poor lady that was ill?
15: How did he help?
16: Who wanted hi to do this?
17: Who heard him say this?
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Anne Sanders was practicing soccer moves, which was not normal. Usually, Anne only plays basketball. She wins every basketball game she plays, and she loses at any other game. "Anne", I waved to her. "Why are you playing soccer?" "Well, the gym teacher is doing something different," she said. "There are teams of four and partners of two.We get to pick our partners, and I want someone to pick me. "Anne held up a list. "It looks like I'm on a team with you, Stacey, and Paul," I said. "Stacey is my best friend.Maybe we can be together: " Just then, Stacey and Paul came over. They had heard of the teams. "Do you want to be partners, Stacey?" I asked. "Well, I was going to be partners with Paul," she claimed. I didn't blame her. Paul was as fast as a rocket, and my nickname was "Snail". "But we are best friends," said Stacey. "So I guess I'II be with you. " It was our first game. Stacey went to talk to some other friends afterwards, and Paul and Anne were talking about winning their game. I was sipping on my water, when I overheard Stacey, "She's worse than I thought; if I played the team alone,, I would have won easily. She's worse than a snail. She's more like a statue. " That night, I felt terrible for losing and mad at Stacey for calling me a statue. After all, she was my best friend and my only friend. Anyway, the phone rang, and it was Stacey. At first, I thought she might apologize, but no such luck. "Allison, the game tomorrow is canceled, " she said. "Okay," I replied. "Sorry about the game today", Stacey hung up on me. The next day, I went over to the soccer field. I knew the game was canceled, but maybe I could help clean up.But instead of a mess, I saw a soccer game in progress. Stacey and were playing, and Anne was hiding in the corner. "Paul made me pretend to be sick, " she whispered. "He wants to play with Stacey because she's so fast. " So Anne and I went to get ice cream. Even if I lost Stacey ,I just created a lifelong friendship.
Answer the following questions:
1: What sport does Anne usually play?
2: What's her last name?
3: What sport is she currently playing?
4: Does she usually lose when she plays basketball?
5: Why is she playing soccer?
6: How many teams are there?
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On the farm there was a little piggy named Andy. Andy was very sweet, but he was always dirty. He loved to roll around in the mud. None of the other piggies wanted to play with him. He wished they would be his friends. One day he was going on a walk on the farm. He walked by and saw his favorite big tree. He walked farther than he ever had before. He saw a bunch of pretty flowers. Then he saw something that he had never seen before. It was a river! He ran down to the river, shouting with joy. He got down low in the cool water swam around for a bit. He ran back to the farm where the other piggies were. He was finally clean. They all played games until dinner time. When it was time for dessert the piggies each got a cupcake. Looking at all his new friends, Andy smiled and took a big bite of his tasty treat.
Answer the following questions:
1: What was Andy?
2: Where did he live?
3: Was he mean?
4: What did he love to do?
5: Did the other piggies like to play with him?
6: What did he wish?
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One day, a pink moon was looking down at an empty sand land. Although the pink moon could see all the lizards and cacti in the empty sand land, nobody could see the moon! The pink moon felt so lonely. So, the pink moon called on the sun for help. The great sun was very busy high in the sky, for it was his job to shine over the sand land, and it was hard to get his attention. So the moon wiggled closer and closer to the sun every second. The second turned to hours as the pink moon inched toward his friend, slowly moving across the sky. Finally, the sun saw the moon and asked, "Pink moon! What are you doing here? Don't you know the sky is my home during the day? Your time is coming soon enough. Look, I'm falling now toward my bed on the end of the earth..." But the pink moon could not be stopped and kept moving toward the great sun. "But great sun, I become so lonely during the day when your light is so bright the animals in the sand land can't see me. Please let me join your light during the day this once!" By this time, the great sun and pink moon were only inches apart. The great sun said, "Though by day you disappear, I always remember you are here. Come to me now. Stand in front of me, and show the sand land your shine!" So the pink moon inched in front of the great sun. At first, covering part of the sun's circle, then more, then...a complete covering of the sun! The pink moon was shining with the power and light of the sun! All the lizards, cacti and every animal stood still in awe of the daytime pink moon! But at that time, the sun slipped away, saying "Farewell, pink moon. We have to do this again!" And so, every few years, the sun and moon come together to show the pink moon's is always with us, even in the day time .
Answer the following questions:
1: Who called the sun for help?
2: Who was looking down at an empty sand land?
3: Who could see the moon?
4: How did the moon feel?
5: Was the sun busy?
6: What was his job?
7: So what did the moon do then?
8: Did the sun see the moon?
9: What did the sun say at first?
10: Did the moon keep moving closer?
11: Why did she say she was coming closer?
12: How far apart were they?
13: Where did the sun say to come?
14: Did the moon comer the sun completely?
15: Who stood in awe of the daytime moon?
16: What happened next?
17: What did he say?
18: So when do the come together now?
19: Why?
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U.S. billionaire Bill Gates went to watch a game of his friend, U.S. teen player Ariel Hsing, at the ExCel Centre while the girl was playing against Chinese Li Xiaoxia. Gates wore an orange jacket and dark blue baseball cap. He sat in the front row of thespectators' stand andapplauded for every point Hsing scored. "I'm wishing her the best of luck, but the opposite player is really great," Gates said. Hsing was in her third match at London 2012. She had already beaten Mexico's Yadira Silva and Luxembourg's Ni Xia Lian. Hsing is known in the U.S. as a close friend with billionaires Warren Buffett and Gates. She is close enough to call them "Uncle Warren" and "Uncle Bill". Buffett met Hsing when she was only 9. Two years later, he invited her to play against his friends. She has returned several times after that. Earlier this year after winning a position on the U.S. team, she took a few points off Buffett and Gates. When asked whether he has won a point off Hsing, Gates said, "She beat me when she was nine. She has been nice to me."
Answer the following questions:
1: Did Bill Gates have a lot of money?
2: Where did bill games watch the match?
3: Who did he go to see compete?
4: What was he wearing?
5: What else?
6: Where did he sit for the match?
7: Did he cheer for his compadre?
8: Did he know the competitor well?
9: How old was the competitor when they were first introduced?
10: How long after was he allowed to compete with Bills companions?
11: Did she go back to compete after that?
12: Was she ever victorious against him?
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Billy and Sally are brother and sister. Billy is seven and Sally is eight. Their mother, Deborah, likes to have Billy and Sally dress up in costumes and play a game where they are answering the telephone. Usually when they play the game, Billy answers the telephone in a loud voice, and Sally answers the telephone in a quiet voice. On Tuesdays, Billy answers in a quiet voice, and Sally answers in a loud voice. On Fridays, Billy answers in a loud voice and Sally in a quiet voice. \tabBilly has blonde hair. Sally has brown hair. Deborah has blonde hair, and Billy and Sally's father, Bob, has brown hair. He tells them to eat lettuce every time that he sees them, so that they grow big and strong like he is. Deborah likes to add some sugar with the lettuce so that Billy and Sally know what it is like to have sweet tastes in their life. One day, a Wednesday, Billy throws some lettuce into Sally's hair. Deborah laughs an grabs some straw from their farm and puts it in Billy's hair. Billy and Sally live on a farm. They have a goat, named Joey, and a duck, named Quack. They sometimes play a game with the goat where they chase him around the farm. Other times, they play a game with Quack where they wave at Quack and laugh. They have a fun life growing up on the farm.
Answer the following questions:
1: Are billy and sally related?
2: How old is Billy?
3: How old is sally?
4: What is their mom's name?
5: What does she like to do?
6: Who answers in a loud voice?
7: Who anwsers in a quiet voice?
8: Is it diverent on different days of the week?
9: Who is quiet on tuesdays?
10: Does Sally anwser loud on tuesdays?
11: What color hair does billy have?
12: What about Sally?
13: What about deborah?
14: What is billy and sally's father's name?
15: What color hair does he have?
16: What does he tell them to eat everytime he see's them?
17: what's his reasoning for that?
18: What does deborah like to add to the lettuce?
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Mr White works in an office. He's very busy and has no time to have a good rest. Every evening, when he comes back from his office, he's always tired and wants to go to bed early. But his wife often has a lot of interesting things to tell him after dinner. She doesn't stop talking until she falls asleep . But it's usually too late and Mr White has to get up early in the morning when she is still sleeping. One day Mr White felt terrible and couldn't go to work. He decided to go to see a doctor. Mrs White went to the hospital with him. Before her husband said what was the matter with him, the woman told the doctor all. The doctor wrote out a prescription . When Mrs White took the medicine to the doctor's room, the doctor said to her, "The bottle of medicine is for your husband and the pills are for you. " "For me?" the woman said in surprise. "I'm fine. I don't need any medicine!" "I don't think so, madam," said the doctor. "They are sleeping pills. Your husband will be all right soon if you take them. "
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is Mr. White married to?
2: is she a quiet person?
3: where does he work?
4: is it a slow office?
5: does he get enough rest?
6: what does he want to do when he gets home?
7: does his wife let him?
8: where did he go the day he didn't go to work?
9: who went with him?
10: Did Mr. White have a chance to speak?
11: why not?
12: Who did she tell?
13: How did the doctor respond?
14: was it just for Mr. White?
15: Who were the pills for?
16: did this make sense to her?
17: Does she feel like she needs the medicine?
18: what kind of pills are they?
19: did the doctor think they will help the husband?
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What's your favorite cartoon? It may be difficult for you to decide. But for pianist Lang Lang, Tom and Jerry is the best one. When Lang was two years old, he saw Tom play the piano. This was his first time to enjoy western music and this experience encouraged him to learn to play the piano. His talent at the keyboard has taken him from Shenyang to the world. Lang became a good piano student at three. Ever since, the boy has been doing better and better. In 1997, the 15-year-old boy studied at a famous American music college. Lang's performances are energetic. He is well-known for making facial expressions and moving around while playing the piano. The road to success has never been easy. Lang's father stopped his job to look after him, while his mother stayed in Shenyang to make money. But Lang thinks himself lucky and believes he should give something back. He has helped the children in poor areas a lot.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who likes Tom and Jerry best?
2: Where was he from?
3: When did he become talented at piano?
4: Are his shows slow?
5: What are they like?
6: What happens with his face?
7: What did his dad do?
8: What did his mom do?
9: Why?
10: Why does Lang like that cartoon?
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Buenos Aires ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the first one was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre". The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas, with a population of around 17 million.
The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's capital; rather, it is an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include the towns of Belgrano and Flores; both are now neighborhoods of the city. The 1994 constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name: Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Autonomous City of Buenos Aires). Its citizens first elected a chief of government (i.e. mayor) in 1996; previously, the mayor was directly appointed by the President of the Republic.
Answer the following questions:
1: what can Buenos Aires be translated as?
2: what is the approx population?
3: is the city part of Buenos Aires province?
4: was it granted autonomy?
5: when?
6: what granted it?
7: what was it's original name?
8: when was the first mayor elected?
9: where is it a capital of?
10: what did the early founders want it to mean?
11: what is the metropolital area ranked in population?
12: when was it federalized?
13: what else was done then?
14: were the city limits enlarged?
15: by how many towns?
16: please name them.
17: did the citizens always elect a mayor?
18: what happened in the past?
19: what is the city's formal name?
20: where is it located?
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CHAPTER V. THE FIRST SPARK PASSES
"Now, gentlemen," shouted the auctioneer when he had finished his oration upon the girl's attractions, "what 'tin I bid? Eight hundred?"
Stephen caught his breath. There was a long pause no one cared to start the bidding.
"Come, gentlemen, come! There's my friend Alf Jenkins. He knows what she's worth to a cent. What'll you give, Alf? Is it eight hundred?"
Mr. Jenkins winked at the auction joined in the laugh.
"Three hundred!" he said.
The auctioneer was mortally offended. Then some one cried:--"Three hundred and fifty!"
It was young Colfax. He was recognized at once, by name, evidently as a person of importance.
"Thank you, Mistah Colfax, suh," said the auctioneer, with a servile wave of the hand in his direction, while the crowd twisted their necks to see him. He stood very straight, very haughty, as if entirely oblivious to his conspicuous position.
"Three seventy-five!"
"That's better, Mistah Jenkins," said the auctioneer, sarcastically. He turned to the girl, who might have stood to a sculptor for a figure of despair. Her hands were folded in front of her, her head bowed down. The auctioneer put his hand under her chin and raised it roughly. "Cheer up, my gal," he said, "you ain't got nothing to blubber about now."
Hester's breast heaved and from her black eyes there shot a magnificent look of defiance. He laughed. That was the white blood.
The white blood!
Clarence Colfax had his bid taken from his lips. Above the heads of the people he had a quick vision of a young man with a determined face, whose voice rang clear and strong,-- "Four hundred!"
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was the second person to bid?
2: What did he offer?
3: Did that make Jenkins get more serious?
4: What was his new bid?
5: What was his first?
6: Did he act goofy with his first?
7: What did the auctioneer suggest for the first bid?
8: Was there a fourth?
9: from who?
10: Who was getting ready to bid when this new man did?
11: What is being sold?
12: What is her name?
13: Is she scared?
14: How does she feel?
15: What does the auctioneer see that as?
16: How does she show it to him?
17: What kind of look does she give him?
18: Where was she looking before that?
19: where were her hands?
20: Does the auctioneer like the first bid?
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CHAPTER VIII.
M. Goudé grumbled much when he heard that his whole class were going to be absent for three days.
"A nice interruption to study," he said, "however, you were none of you doing yourselves any good, and you may as well be out in the fields as hanging about the streets gossiping. We can always talk, but during the past six weeks Paris has done nothing but talk. Don't come back with any of your number short. You have all got something in you and are too good for food for Prussian powder."
Cuthbert went that evening to the Michauds, in his uniform, not for the purpose of showing it off, but because men in plain clothes, especially if of fair complexions, were constantly stopped and accused of being German spies, were often ill-treated, and not unfrequently had to pass a night in the cells before they could prove their identity. Mary gave an exclamation of surprise at seeing him so attired, but made no remark until after chatting for half an hour with the Michauds. The husband presently made the excuse that he had to attend a meeting and went off, while madame took up some knitting, settled herself in an easy chair, and prepared for a quiet doze, then Mary said in English--
"I have no patience with you, Cuthbert, taking part with these foolish people. The more I see of them the more I get tired of their bombast and their empty talk. Every man expects everyone else to do something and no one does anything."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who has Mary lost patience with?
2: Who doesn't she like?
3: What is sick of hearing?
4: Who does she think does something?
5: Who do men expect to do something?
6: Where is Cuthbert visiting?
7: What is he wearing?
8: Is he trying to impress people?
9: What was he trying to avoid being called?
10: How are they treated?
11: Do they ever get put in jail?
12: For how long?
13: How do they get out?
14: What kind of attire might have caused him these problems?
15: Is he dark skinned?
16: What is he?
17: How long did he talk with the Michauds?
18: Where did the husband go?
19: Who is a teacher?
20: How long will his students be gone?
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One night I was at my friend's house where he threw a party. We were enjoying our dinner at night when all of a sudden we heard a knock on the door. I opened the door and saw this guy who had scar on his face. I asked my friend "who is that guy?", and he told me that it was his friend. I didn't trust that guy because he looked very strange.
After we had dinner the strange guy asked my friend to come outside because he wanted to talk to him. A few seconds later I heard a noise from outside and when I ran outside I saw that the strange guy was trying to beat my friend. I ran towards him and asked him to leave our house. He left the house but after half an hour he came back and this time he was dressed up as superhero and he also had a sword. As soon as I saw him I ran inside the house and called the cops. The cops came and the guy ran away as soon as he heard the cop car coming. We never found out what happened to that guy after that day.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where was I one night?
2: Was my friend male or female?
3: Why was I there?
4: Were we eating breakfast?
5: What happened next?
6: who answered it?
7: Who was there?
8: Was the visitor male or female?
9: Did I trust him?
10: Why not?
11: Where did the guy want to go?
12: Why?
13: What made a noise?
14: So what did I do?
15: Did the guy stay?
16: What was unusual when he returned?
17: Who did I call?
18: Did they arrest him?
19: Why did he run?
20: Did I see him again?
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CHAPTER XXIV
FROM A GARRET WINDOW
"This is getting interesting!" whispered Tom.
"I should say so," murmured Dick.
"That must have been what was bringing Belright Fogg down to New York City."
"It looks like it."
"Well, if he is mixed up in this he can get pinched with the rest of the rascals."
"Right you are."
After that the boys listened to more of the talk between the brokers and Josiah Crabtree. From what was said it was easy to guess that the plotters expected to make quite a large sum of money out of their evil doings.
"But you have got to get Rover's signatures to those papers," said Jesse Pelter.
"We'll do it!" cried Josiah Crabtree. "Even if we have to starve him into it."
"I hope those boys didn't come after the schooner," muttered Japson.
"I reckon Captain Rodney will know how to throw 'em off the scent," returned Crabtree.
"We were lucky to find that automobile at the tavern," went on Pelter.
Some more talk followed and then Japson exclaimed:
"Why can't we make Rover sign those papers now? Maybe we can scare him into it."
"We might try," answered his partner, slowly.
The men arose and Japson lit a lantern, for he knew it was dark in the garret. Then, one behind the other, they filed out into the hallway and went upstairs.
"They are going to find out something pretty soon!" chuckled Tom.
"Come on, let us follow 'em, Tom," answered his brother. "I've got a new idea."
Answer the following questions:
1: How did Tom speak to Dick
2: How did Dick speak to Tom
3: What went down to New York City?
4: Who were the brokers talking to?
5: What were they expecting?
6: From what?
7: Who is the first broker to speak?
8: What did Josiah have to get?
9: Where?
10: Who is the second broker to speak?
11: Who is the third broker?
12: Did he hope something?
13: Did he hope something?
14: Who did Crabtree then mention?
15: What did they find at the tavern?
16: Does Japson want the papers signed now?
17: How were they planning on doing that?
18: Does his partner want to try?
19: What did Japson light?
20: Was it dark?
21: Where did the file out to?
22: Then where did they go?
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(CNN) -- Here's something shocking.
Democrats and Republicans totally disagree about the significance of the GOP's victory in the first major competitive congressional ballot box test of 2014.
Republican candidate David Jolly narrowly edged out Democrat Alex Sink to win Tuesday's special election in Florida's 13th Congressional District. Jolly will fill out the term of his former boss, longtime Republican Rep. Bill Young, who died in October.
Republicans win first election showdown of the year
The race was consistently in the spotlight with national Republicans framing the election as a referendum on Obamacare. They injected a massive infusion of outside ad money into the race and some pundits cast the election as a possible bellwether for November's midterms.
"I think this was a referendum on (President Barack Obama's) policies and on Obamacare, that played out significantly to the disadvantage of (House Democratic Leader) Nancy Pelosi. And I think it sets the tone for what's coming in the fall," Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, told CNN Wednesday.
"We've been trying to tell people this is a referendum election, Obamacare is not helping people the way it was promised, and Democrats are going to have a lot of answering to do," Walden added.
But his counterpart at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sees very little predictive value in the results.
"Special elections are not indicators of the future. They never have been. They never will be. And certainly this is not an indicator of the future," Rep. Steve Israel, the DCCC chairman, told reporters.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who won Florida's 13th Congressional District?
2: Of what politcal party?
3: Against?
4: On which day of the week?
5: Who's chair was to be filled?
6: What happened to him?
7: In what month?
8: Which election win for the right was this?
9: What was there a massive infusion of?
10: From where?
11: Outside what?
12: Who was the House Democratic Leader?
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LONDON--A morning's train ride away, across the Channel, English kids talk about Liverpool's soccer team in aprefix = st1 /Parispub. Some Parisians have even started to go to work in London. In the 19thcentury, Charles Dickens compared the two great rival cities, London and Paris, in "A Tale of Two Cities." These days, it might be A Tale of One City. Parisians are these days likely to smile in sympathy at a visitor's broken French and respond in polite English. As jobs grew lack at home over recent years, perhaps 250,000 Frenchmen moved across the Channel. With an undersea tunnel, they could travel between cities in three hours. The European Union freed them from immigration and customs. Paris, rich in beauty, is more attractive. But Londonfeels more full of life, and more fun until the pubs shut down. "For me, the difference is that Londonis real, alive," said Trevor Wheeler, a banker. Chantal Jaouen, a professional designer, agrees. "I am French, but I'll stay in London," she said. There is, of course, the other view. Julie Lenoux is a student who moved to Londontwo years ago. "I think people laugh more inParis," she said. In fact, London and Paris, with their obvious new similarities, are beyond the cold descriptions. As the European Union gradually loosened controls, Londoners _ intoParisto shop, eat and buy property. "Both cities have changed beyond recognition." Said Larry Collins, a writer and sometimes a Londoner. Like most people who know both well, he finds the two now fit together comfortably. "I first fell in love with Parisin the 1950s, and it is still a wonderful place," Collins said. "But if I had to choose, it would be London. Things are so much more ordered, and life is better." But certainly not cheaper. In fancy parts of London, rents can be twice those on Avenue Foch in Paris. Deciding between London and Parisrequires a lifestyle choice. Like Daphne Benoit, a French journalism student with perfect English, many young people are happy to be close enough so they don't have to choose. "I love Paris, my little neighborhood, the way I can walk around a centre, but life is so structured," she said. "InLondon, you can be who you want. No one cares."
Answer the following questions:
1: How long does it take to take the tunnel between Paris and London?
2: Does one need to go through customs when traveling between the two?
3: Does the tunnel go through the Alps?
4: What are bars known as in London?
5: Does Chantal Jaouen prefer London or Paris?
6: What is Trevor Wheeler's occupation?
7: Does everyone agree that London is preferred?
8: Who has a different opinion?
9: Is she a soccer player?
10: Why does she like Paris more?
11: Does she live in Paris?
12: Can you purchase property in Paris if you're not French?
13: What does Larry Collins do for a living?
14: Has he been going to Paris for a long time?
15: Does he believe Paris has more order than London?
16: If money were an issue, where would be better in your opinion?
17: Would Avenue Foch be half the cost of a fancy London neighborhood?
18: What languages can Daphne Benoit speak?
19: Which author wrote a novel with Paris and London as the backdrop?
20: What was the book?
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St. Louis () is an independent city and major U.S. port in the state of Missouri, built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, on the border with Illinois. The city had an estimated 2016 population of 311,404, and is the cultural and economic center of the Greater St. Louis area (home to 2,916,447 people), making it the largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the 19th-largest in the United States. Nine of the ten Fortune 500 companies based in Missouri are located within the St. Louis metropolitan area.
Prior to European settlement, the area was a major regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and named after Louis IX of France. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain and retroceded back to France in 1800. In 1803, the United States acquired the territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase. During the 19th century, St. Louis developed as a major port on the Mississippi River. In the 1870 Census, St. Louis was ranked as the 4th-largest city in the United States. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where does St. Louis get it's name?
2: Who was it founded by?
3: Did he have help?
4: From who?
5: What was their occupation?
6: From where?
7: When did the start the city?
8: Was anybody already there?
9: Who?
10: Who did France give it to?
11: What war caused them to do that?
12: Which one?
13: Did Spain give it back?
14: When?
15: How did the U.S. get it?
16: When?
17: What river is it close to?
18: How many people does it claim?
19: How many Fortune 500 Companies are there?
20: How many in the whole state?
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